Oil drain plug

[dieseldoctor1]

I've always worried about when I have to have my oil changed out on the road that the guy will either leave the plug loose or strip it out. Some of you have voiced the same fear in a thread on here. I found a oil drain valve and ordered one. Seems to be good quality and simple enough that anybody can operate it. Guess I will find out the first time I have to have the oil changed on the road. Check it out at www.fumotovalve.com.


Dieseldoctor

 

[terryandrene]

I had one of these gadgets on a 92 Ford diesel. Worked great!

One word of caution before ordering. Make sure a grease monkey hasn't retapped your drain hole due to stripped threads and installed a larger plug than the OEM

 

[LDB]

I hadn't thought about it before but seeing that gives me nightmares about a malfunction or the same grease monkey not sealing it quite right afterward and I'm not even asleep yet. This thread put the idea in my head of stopping by a convenient dealer and buying a spare drain plug though in case of loss or damage to the one in the engine now.

Leo
truck 4958

Support the entire Constitution, not just the parts you like.

 

[guest]

I bought one of those for my Dodge with the Cummins and was very happy after my first oil change, until I got to wondering if it had permitted all of the oil to drain. I decided to unscrew the new valve plug and another quart or so came pouring out. If your plug is like mine, the top of the drain that the valve opens sits about 1/4 inch or so above the inside bottom of the pan and does not allow all of the oil to drain. I marveled that something could be designed with such an obvious flaw before I went back to my old drain plug that came with the truck. Let me know if yours seems to have this problem. Just take it off (unscrew it from the pan) after all of the oil has drained through the opened valve and see how much more comes out. You may be surprised.

 

[tr]

This product looks interesting; however I am already oversized as a result of grown men not having the intelligence to replace an oil plug. My biggest fear has always been an oil change, something a 10 year old could do; but that is what you get when you go to some of the un-mentionable places. Having just experienced a catstrophe from a dealer who changed my oil in AL, I was faced with the possible replacement of an oil pan as I did not know how long the oversize plug (which I had installed later) would hold up. I just found a 'PIGGY BACK PLUG" which I hope will do the trick. In essence it is a plug within a plug. You screw in the larger bolt with a 3/4 wrench and then you screw in the smaller one which is a 5/8. If you are careful, you should have no problem removing the 5/8 plug and the threads in the oil pan should remain unscathed. I will post my success or dislike for this plug after seeing how it holds up. It can be bought from Advance Auto for less than $5.00. It is made my oil-tite. I also bought an expanding rubber plug as an emergency, (just in case) From here on out, I will do all of my oil changes, gee, I hope I am smart enough to do it, (since it appears to be rocket science up to this point) If anyone knows how to attach photos (which I have inquired in the past) let me know and I will try and post a photo. Best of luck and take my advice, change you oil yourself and you know it will be done right.

 

[dieseldoctor1]

Did my first oil change with the new valve last week. Drained with the valve (a little slower to drain than if you pull the plug) and then removed the valve. Not more than a tea spoon full of oil came out then and I think it was what was draining down while I had the valve shut while I was removing it. (Oil was still dripping from valve so I shut it off to remove it.) My oil pan is made with a little trough across the pan and then the plug boss is at the end of the trough so is lower than the pan. This trough slopes down to the plug boss. Also I always drive my left front wheel up on a ramp and this tilts the oil pan to the right which is the side the plug is on. Helps to get all the old oil out. Think the valve is going to work out ok.

Dieseldoctor

 

[ATeam]

>I've always worried about when I have to have my oil changed
>out on the road that the guy will either leave the plug
>loose or strip it out. Some of you have voiced the same fear
>in a thread on here. I found a oil drain valve and ordered
>one. Seems to be good quality and simple enough that anybody
>can operate it. Guess I will find out the first time I have
>to have the oil changed on the road. Check it out at
>www.fumotovalve.com.
>
>
>Dieseldoctor

That's a cool-looking device. You learn something new every day.

One of the reasons we like using Speedco for oil changes on a truck (30+ quarts of oil to dispose of if you do it yourself) is the procedure they use when replacing the oil drain plug. When the time comes to screw in the drain plug, the technician (oil-change guy in the pit) asks you to watch him dial in a value on his torque wrench and tighten the drain plug.

 

[guest]

I'm happy to hear the valve worked better on your truck than it did on my pickup. The Fram easy open valve plug on my wife's van is great. I love it. I don't understand why something like this isn't built into vehicles in the first place.