rear oil plug depth
rear oil plug depth I installed my rear oil plug lastnite and the depth ended up being .060. The manual said .031-.055. Well I tapped it one last time and it went a lil too deep. Is this going to hurt the engine? The engine is still on the stand so I can take it apart if I need to.
This is a new one. I had a time getting old one out. Is there a method to taking them out? Also, it was a pain to drive in. What am I doing wrong? Or are they just that hard to get in and take out?
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Take the two galley plugs out that are on the bottom drivers side back of the block "I think its the far most rear one" you can stick a small pick up in there and give a little pry and the barbell should pop right out....did you out it in right? If I remember it is stepped and the one end is slightly bigger than the other end
Well I finally got around to trying to fix my oil plug problem. I put a pick up through the oil gally plug hole and pried on it. It wouldn't budge. So, I attempted to pry it out (not easy to do). Here is a pic of it after I pulled it out. Do ya think it messed up driving it in the hole. I could pop the plug in the hole fairly easy. Setting the depth was the difficult part. I couldn't hardly get it to budge. Am I doing something wrong when installing it? Also, will I need to replace the rear cover gasket since I had to remove it to get to th oil plug? It's brand new, the engine hasn't been fired yet.
Last edited by mg98ta; Jul 27, 2012 at 08:47 AM.
