Re: Oil pan woes

[jtrealty@xxxx]

It is not easy to remove the oil pan. The standard repair would be to 
install a thread repair like a Heli-coil or some such item. If it is 
really mangled up sometimes you can go to the next larger size. 
Another option would be to remove the oil pan, have a GOOD welder weld 
up the threads and retap. To do this involves unfastening the engine 
mounts and jacking up the motor for clearance. It sounds like you also 
need to buy a new drain plug and don't forget the copper gasket and an 
oil pan gasket if you remove it.(Not a simple or pleasant job!) Get a 
drain plug adapter and don't let a grease monkey strip the next 
one.This usually doesn't happen often but what might have happened is 
the origional plug got lost (fell in the oil can) and they substituted 
a plug with the wrong (american) threads. Although they got the plug 
in the threads were stripped so when you took out the plug you were 
screwed.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757

-- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Payne" <bpayne@xxxx> wrote:
> Today I had the oil changed in my DeLorean at the Honda dealership 
where I
> work. We removed the drain plug only to find it completely stripped 
with
> only about one or two threads at the top, it's a wonder it stayed 
in.