Dave Simkus

I was having a nice day.
Going to do my first oil change on my LS1...
Bought all the oil, Lifted the car.
Got my 15mm wrench which fit snug on there.

pushed and pushed so damn hard, WONT COME OFF.
Pushed some more until it stripped.

Honestly who the F@&#! summons the power of Satan to fuse a bolt completely so it can never be removed??!!!!!!!!!!

Now my whole day is ruined, and I'm pissed the hell off. Oil change is long overdue for my Trans Am.

Colin1337

Probably going to have to take it somewhere to have it heated up and removed, unless you have access to those tools.

RockinWs6

How did you strip the head of the bolt? Go buy a good quality 15mm wrench Or use a large jaw plyers or small pipe wrench to remove the bolt. Be sure you are turning it in the proper direction.

Chaos07

Ya I've had that happen to me when I first did my oil change on the TA ended up taking it to a little shop and they used a pipe wrench to get it off. But they put it on a lift.

LS6427

iTrader: (2)

Yup......pipe wrench is awesome.

Or tap a 14mm socket on there with a hammer, then ratchet it off. But don't smack it too crazy hard....you don't want to crack the oil pan......

I don't know when people will learn that these bolts only need to be hand tight....then a little tiny snug with a ratchet.

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Dave Simkus

Thanks, I'll take it to a shop tomorrow.

Dave Simkus

Not sure how but it is a good quality wrench and it fit perfectly on the bolt. I twisted it counter-clockwise from the head of the bolt. It didn't budge. I literally used all my weight on it until it gave but only the bolt got stripped.

RockinWs6

6 point socket should still work on it.

AKAFRED

iTrader: (1)

did you use the open end of the wrench? that will strip pretty much any bolt..

sscamaroburn02

iTrader: (14)

sounds like someone got happy with an impact!!

GoldenFlame

iTrader: (2)

Vise grips would work too

DemonicZ

weld a 14mm socket to the head and grab a breaker bar

Decadence75

iTrader: (17)

If you were using a 12 pt socket I can see how that would be easy to do with it being on too tight. Also something that I like to keep around for stripped bolt heads is an extractor set. They work like easy outs for screws and will bite hard into any stripped bolt head and pull it loose. I picked my set up at HFT for pretty cheap.

Chevyguy2001

Do what i did take a dremel and grind down opposite sides of the bolt then take a cresent wrench with a pipe and twist it off.

KevinR

Try these before you take it to a shop. ^^^

I had the same exact problem a while back, so I got me a set of these and it came right off.

vanwyk99

could be cross threaded happened on my buddies car we ended up using the torch and putting a big socket and a cheater bar to bust it lose good luck!

vanwyk99

yep just get some new wiper blades

man-o-war

Worst case scenario drill the bolt out carefully but first try other suggestions especially that stripped bolt socket

xxtremes33

yup sounds like its cross threaded to me. drill out and retap pan if thats the case.

xxtremes33

did you ever get this resolved?