> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 98 20:35:54 EDT
> From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Summit magnetic oil pan drain plug
> Reply-to: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> oil pan drain plug a little while ago, and I just did my
> first oil change after installing it. (3,000 miles later)
>
> I mentioned when I first installed it that it had less than
> half of the thread that the stock drain plug has, which I
> didn't like, but I installed it anyway.
>
> As it turns out, the cheap gasket that came with the
> plug hardened and cracked, and actually allowed some oil
> to drip out! I had to add oil to the engine for the first
> time ever; it leaked maybe 1/2 a quart or so over the
> course of 3,000 miles.
>
> I didn't find any metal on the plug, not even any
> grit or dust, so that was a good thing anyway. (Well, either
> my engine is OK, or the magnet wasn't strong enough to pull
> and hold the particles). I re-installed my stock plug, and
> that's what I'll use from now on. I think maybe I'll go back
> to my original idea of an oil filter magnet.
>
>
> -Jon-
>
You'd be better served by a product called "Fliter-Mag". It's a
curved magnet that you put on your oil filter. It will pull out
particles that might be going through the bypass.
|{eith R. Phelps
Cat..... the other white meat.
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