89musclestang

i have my oil pan off and im ready to reinstall it but i found out that the oil drain plug toward the rear of the car just spins in place :/ ... what can i do about w/o havin to buy a new oil pan...its holdin me up on putting my engine in the car and its pissin me off.... maybe im overlooking something easy to do out of frustration with my build.. help please.

calfroper_06

theres a few things you can do

1) weld the plug in and weld a new one beside it
2) Go to your local auto parts and get a piggyback. Its a size bigger plug the self threads into your pan, and then theres another plug inside that one that you use to drain the oil. So when its done you dont take the first plug(the one that threaded its own threads in the pan) out, you just use the one inside it. Srry just trying to explain it for you

calfroper_06

Or go to the local junk yard and pick one up. if you were closer i got a few laying around in the garage you could have

Portmaster

Is the plug spinning or the inner nut?

89musclestang

yea the plug is spining

mjr46

if the pan is out take it to a machine shop and have them fix it or if you wish they make tappered plugs to fix such, but I like repairing it properly for a permanant fix

89musclestang

yea i guess i could take it to a machine shop but i might as well see if it would be cheaper to get one from a junkyard then fixed... but something as small as that shouldn't cost much at all....

mjr46

it shouldn't be all that expensive to fix.......heck 1 large pizza with all the fixin's would be good enough for me

Portmaster

I heard that, We had a couple of good places to eat around my shop. We'd swap off small repairs for food all the time. (No charge and customer buys everyone lunch) guess that the reason I'm pushing 325, lol

mjr46

^^^^^^^^lol When Big "B"/Pro50sc comes up to our shop on the weekend for a day of install, I give him credit, he has always provided a good lunch!!