They do work - for sure. My girlfriends dad warned about the washer
(plastic) cracking, so don't feel bad, Jon. He suggested, and I
bought, a metal (copper?) drain plug washer. It has worked great -
haven't lost a drop in 6 oil changes - powder dry.
Tate
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger [SMTP:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 1998 9:31 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Magnetic Drain Plugs and such
At 11:48 PM 9/28/98 -0400, HKUSP40578@aol.com wrote:
>I remember a while back the talk about magnetic oil drain plugs and
if
>they really work, well I couldn't find the posts in the archives so I
>would like to know if they are worth the $5.39 in Summit. Also, I
remember
>some talk about the thread length and how wasn't too long as compared
to
>the stock drain plug......anyone out there who has bought one, has
there
>been any problems with the shorter threads???? Is it the 1/2"-20
thread
>by the way for my 93 Dak V6???? One more........thinking about this
whole
>magnetic idea....I was looking at the oil filter magnet strap in the
JC
>Whitney catalog, for $10 is it just overkill, or does that much crap
>get filtered around in my engine(95,000 miles)???? Should I just try
one
>or the other and not both or get both???? Any ideas would be greatly
>appreciated on this attractive :) dilemma!!!!!
>Thanks,
>Kyle
>
Yep, I bought one. In fact, I think I brought up the "shorter
threads" thing. The thread size itself was fine (that is, it fit the
truck). I feel that the stock drain plug is of much higher quality
though. Hey, is it possible to magnatize the stock plug? That would
be the best of both worlds...
Anyway, I wasn't real happy with the Summit plug. Its collecting
dust in the garage. I only had it in for one oil change interval
(3000 miles), but the crappy gasket that came with it had hardened
and broke, which allowed some oil to leak! I couldn't find another
gasket that I was happy with (granted, I didn't look very long) so I
just gave up on it and put the old plug back in. I too have thought
about getting that oil filter magnet. Anyone have any experience with
'em? Do they work? I guess the only way to tell would be to cut
open
the filters... Seems to me that a magnet on the filter would have
to be pretty strong, since the flow is higher there? Also, I wonder
what might happen if it managed to collect some particles and then
fell off and they all went through the system in a big chunk? :-)
(Color me paranoid.) ;-)
-Jon-
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