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Replace oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted ps fluid

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Changed oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted PS fluid, changed transmission oil.

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Check local hydraulic shop

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Suggestion

There are repair sleeves that you can thread in to things like the drain, check your local hydraulic shop.

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Leading evidence: 'Replace oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted ps fluid' (no explicit attributable resolution; this is a reported action or suggestion). Across 1 matching discussions, the most frequently mentioned possible cause is 'screw up by the prior owner' (1 discussions; 0 report identifying it and 1 suggest it). The most frequently discussed action is 'Check local hydraulic shop' (1 discussions). For that action, 0 discussions report a resolution and 0 report an unsuccessful attempt. No action has an explicit, attributable resolution report under the current rules. These are forum reports and suggestions, not a confirmed diagnosis.

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Replace transmission oil

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

Changed oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted PS fluid, changed transmission oil.

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Tighten until firm

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After draining the diff oil, I inserted the drain plug and hand tightened until firm.

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Use timeserts

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I use Timeserts for most thread repairs but they are painfully expensive.

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Use torque wrench (21 ft lbs)

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Then used torque wrench (21 ft lbs) but the plug just kept spinning.

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Check local hydraulic shop

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There are repair sleeves that you can thread in to things like the drain, check your local hydraulic shop.

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Repair sleeves

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There are repair sleeves that you can thread in to things like the drain, check your local hydraulic shop.

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Replace front diff oil

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And tried to change front diff oil, which is where the problem arose.

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Replace oil and didn't strip the filler

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You changed the oil and didn't strip the filler, so you should be assured the former owner/tech "screwed" up.

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Replace oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted ps fluid

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

Changed oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted PS fluid, changed transmission oil.

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Replace transmission oil

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

Changed oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted PS fluid, changed transmission oil.

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Tighten until firm

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

After draining the diff oil, I inserted the drain plug and hand tightened until firm.

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Use timeserts

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I use Timeserts for most thread repairs but they are painfully expensive.

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Use torque wrench (21 ft lbs)

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Performed · outcome unconfirmed · Original poster

Then used torque wrench (21 ft lbs) but the plug just kept spinning.

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These are separate views of the same evidence. Frequency alone does not establish a fix, and these counts must not be added together.

screw up by the prior owner

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Likely a screw up by the prior owner

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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Bought my C4S about a year ago and decided recently to get a baseline on all common maintenance items. Changed oil, flushed brake fluid, turkey-basted PS fluid, changed transmission oil. And tried to change front diff oil, which is where the problem arose. After draining the diff oil, I inserted the drain plug and hand tightened until firm. Then used torque wrench (21 ft lbs) but the plug just kept spinning. Then it just pulled straight out. The threads on the diff (which appears to be cast aluminum) are completely stripped. I wasn't pulling at all hard on the torque wrench, but the threads stripped anyway. I keep wondering if maybe the threads had been weakened or even stripped before (the diff fluid that came out was very new, so the previous owner had it done not long before selling the car). Bottom line: I can't think of anything I did wrong here, but the fact is the threads are stripped. I can fix the diff (either helicoil or tapping a hole for a larger plug), but I'm pretty freaked out because my next project was going to be spark plugs and coils. If threads in cast aluminum diff strip this easily, I'm worried about stripping threads in the head for the spark plugs. Care to talk me down from the ledge? Thanks, JRP

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that is very unusual for such a large thread. Likely a screw up by the prior owner

POST 3Original post

You changed the oil and didn't strip the filler, so you should be assured the former owner/tech "screwed" up.

POST 4Original post

Get off the ledge. This happens all the time and maybe not in this very location. Clean it, drill it, tap it, helicoil it, clean it and move on.

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There are repair sleeves that you can thread in to things like the drain, check your local hydraulic shop. Way better than a Helicoil and stronger. They go in with the Green locktight I believe, (The stuff that doesn't come out without extreme measures.) The sleeves are steel. I use Timeserts for most thread repairs but they are painfully expensive.

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