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If you don’t reset it, the car won’t know you’ve changed the oil.
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That kind of rookie error is for the newbies at quick oil change where I actually had a guy gun one in on the company car because that’s where we took them.
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Don’t forget to do your homework on resetting your oil reminder, I don’t know your procedure but given the age it should just be a button push from a durametric or equivalent.
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just needs a firm tightening, no fear of one working itself loose.
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That kind of rookie error is for the newbies at quick oil change where I actually had a guy gun one in on the company car because that’s where we took them.
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Don’t forget to do your homework on resetting your oil reminder, I don’t know your procedure but given the age it should just be a button push from a durametric or equivalent.
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I am a newbie here and at least so far, have a rather simple query. I wish to do an oil change on my base 08
Cayman
(purchased late last Fall). I would like to add a magnetic oil drain
plug
but cannot seem to find what the thread size and pitch is. Of course I could remove it and measure, put it back in and wait until my
next
change or remove, measure and leave the car while I wait for the mag
plug
to arrive but it's been a long winter and I am anticipating my first drive of the year. Thanks for the help.
Pelican Parts
has inexpensive ones, I think mine is a rennline but I’m sure the cheaper ones are fine. Don’t expect to find much, all the way back to my 944 ( which had a factory magnet) I never saw any evidence of metal shavings, more like a very fine sludge coating. Don’t forget to do your homework on resetting your oil reminder, I don’t know your procedure but given the age it should just be a button push from a durametric or equivalent. If you don’t reset it, the car won’t know you’ve changed the oil.
Thanks for the info and suggestions. I have been installing mag drain plugs in all my vehicles for a long time and as Boris said, have found nothing more than a metallic sludge indicative of normal wear. However, I prefer the preventative nature of this cheap, simple to install modification versus the alternative.
Google is useless as it shows a 10mm, 12mm and 14mm! The consensus seems to be 14 by 1.5 but I would like to be certain. Will check the
LN Engineering
info. Thx
+1 for M18 x 1.5mm......
After spenting an hour or two on a friend's
986
in the past, trying to "carefully" unscrew the "almost stripped" drain
plug
, I decided to get this after contemplating LN, and others. Wanted stay away from soft aluminum, HEX..
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Additionally, you don’t need to gorilla any drain
plug
into a pan, snug is good. That kind of rookie error is for the newbies at quick oil change where I actually had a guy gun one in on the company car because that’s where we took them. Did he have it set to a specific torque? Didn’t seem that way to me.
Don't need no fancy
plug
- but ALWAYS use a new crush washer. I confess I've reused one when absolutely necessary but then you're never sure when it's properly torqued.
Hydraulic banjo fittings have moved from crush washers to Bonded Seal Washers.
I am going to try one of the copper ones on my next oil change. Should seal as well or better at low-end of the torque range, and copper should be more friendly to our aluminum oil pans than the steel ones.
Sealing & Cushioning Washers - Grainger Industrial Supply
Totally agree. When I was wrenching in my teens, I was under the impression that the tighter the better was best for everything on a car. Broke many bolts in my days with that vigor.
Torque wrench
? What the hell is that? Granted, lots of measured torque is important for certain parts but an oil
plug
just needs a firm tightening, no fear of one working itself loose. Don’t know if I would use that
Amazon
Votex version, it being steel. Disimilar metals are not a good combination, with galvanic corrosion being a worry. Aluminum to aluminum presents no risk of that, and the crush washer is what does most of the work in this case.
