#6 change to be exact, did torque the drain plug last time to 10 ft-lbs. Putting on my trusty 10 mm six point socket, and even without that much force, rounded the hex. What a piece of crap this is.
While I did order a new OE drain plug from the net, did find an almost exact replacement at my local Advanced Auto store, their part number 090-162, price was $3.69, appears to be cad plated steel, but the major difference has a female torx hole in the center of it.T-47 is the size. Heck, maybe even better than OE.
Only way I could get the old one out was to remove my underhood shield first and got my trusty made in the USA pipe wrench, I put that on that shoulder base of the old plug. This time it came out.
In studying the old plug, the problem with it was that embedded O'Ring, it baked itself very well the the crankcase. Another stupid idea, for a hundred years were using a copper gasket.
090-162 plug had the same embedded O'Ring, but this time I coated it with non-hardening Permatex, hopefully this won't bake on either.
Problems, always problems, especially those that were never problems before. First time in my life, had problems removing an oil drain plug, and I can't blame the guy that tightened it.
While I did order a new OE drain plug from the net, did find an almost exact replacement at my local Advanced Auto store, their part number 090-162, price was $3.69, appears to be cad plated steel, but the major difference has a female torx hole in the center of it.T-47 is the size. Heck, maybe even better than OE.
Only way I could get the old one out was to remove my underhood shield first and got my trusty made in the USA pipe wrench, I put that on that shoulder base of the old plug. This time it came out.
In studying the old plug, the problem with it was that embedded O'Ring, it baked itself very well the the crankcase. Another stupid idea, for a hundred years were using a copper gasket.
090-162 plug had the same embedded O'Ring, but this time I coated it with non-hardening Permatex, hopefully this won't bake on either.
Problems, always problems, especially those that were never problems before. First time in my life, had problems removing an oil drain plug, and I can't blame the guy that tightened it.