Tyler,

Lowered yet?

 

fvckin Canada...

He will right after you get those OEM wheels.

 

I mean.. you're basically South Canada, just jump over the line to get one

 

Negative. Canada is America's hat.

Also, I pay for my own healthcare.

 

Thank you

I hope to have coils by the end of the year. My wife and I have been going crazy with house projects this summer

Thank you Steven!

Thank you J! I don't remember your balls being bare though

Nope, I couldn't do it either. Thanks for the kind words!



Yep! Every time my fat ass gets into the car

Gottteeemmmmmmmmmmm

 

I hear H&R coils are pretty nice

 

I think I saw a set for $400 a few months back

 

a set of what?!! balls!??!

 

For testicular standards, that's rather cheap.

 

I've heard you can go to Mexico and get them for cheaper

 

omg no....who the hell wants mexican jumping beans!!?!?

 

Mexicans flicking the bean??? I do! I do!

 

This happened yesterday:



What a view :tooocool:

 

dem headlites doe...

Oh how I wish the Jeep has the same projectors. It might as well have wax candles in comparison to the the S2k headlights.

 

toooooo mannnnyyy oooooo's!
Nice Tyler...glad to see you still enjoying your boo.

 

is that a mic on your wheel?

 

For recording sexy times...


And his S2K is voice controlled

 

Thanks J

Yeah, it's a microphone from the headunit.


Well, not all news is good news. During my last oil change, I discovered that the oil drain plug had been over-torqued, resulting in some threads inside of the oil pan being stripped. With the OEM plug installed, it would tighten to a point, but continue to spin. Not the best news to have, but alas, getting a longer plug seemed to stop the leak. I got the car home and didn't drive it for 5 days due to heavy rain. When I backed the car out of the garage for a wash, I saw this on my garage floor:



Fuck.

So now what? Get that oil off of my damn floor I cleaned it up and put an old, folded box on the ground. This is how much leaked out before I found a fix.



A former Honda tech at work said due to the oil pans being aluminum, stripped threads happen somewhat often. He sourced me a slightly oversized bolt from a local dealership with a tapered end that basically rethreads the pan when inserted. We drained the oil, inserted the new bolt, and let the car idle for about 20 minutes...no leak. Then I took it for a 15 minute test drive...no leak. I took it to work yesterday, about 72 miles round-trip...no leak. So it's fixed; but for how long?

I'm concerned that the same bolt won't seal after my next oil change...which would result in me needing a new oil pan. I get dealership pricing, but it's still not cheap. We'll see what happens, but at least the car is back on the road and the oil is staying inside my engine

And no I'm still not lowered

 

that sucks. My friends new 4runner lost an engine due to same thing, except much worse.

I would get a new pan, I am sure you can find used ones somewhere if you don't wanna pay dealership pricing.

 

he doesn't mind dealership pricing

 

You could probably get a better baffled aftermarket oil pan for the price the dealer charges for the OEM one I would imagine.

 

He works at a dealership, he gets parts cheap and labor even cheaper.

 

I know that. He was still saying it wasn't cheap though. So either it really isn't cheap or he just is being a girl about it

 

well, if you know that, you know Tyler and you know it's the latter.

 

This is why you do your own wrenching..

 

Also.. that tapered oversized plug is probably okay. But I would retap with a helicoil kit if possible.

 

Majofo,
So, you find that a tapered plug is enough to fill the hole, but you'd still like it bored out and filled with something a little more substantial?
Did I understand that correctly?

 

Indeed I do
That was how I read it too

 

That tapered plug may not be a sufficient rethread.
I'd rather have an achored helicoil in there that is locked in with solid threads for the bolt to follow.
My concern is that tapered plug has pushed too much material for a standard pan helicoil.
You'll probably need to tap it with a larger one.
A good helicoil should last a very long time.

 

Read insufficient, solid, pushed too much, tap it, larger one, last a very long time

 

SupposiBly helicoil is stronger than the original tap/thread.
I'd be fine with that too...

Although I'd go with a slightly larger fumoto, throw some wet jb weld on the threads as I insert and never touch them again...

 

drain and fill through dipstick

 

LOL...I could...I have the mityvac!
What's the equation again...3 oil changes getting 88% of the oil out = 110% fresh oil divided by delta?

Just rinse filter with spring water.

 

*Organic spring water

 

reported

 

Your doing it wrong just flush with this

 

I know a few members on this site that could legit use that.

 

 

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'll most likely re-tap during the next oil change, though I've heard of these plugs doing just fine over an extended period of time.

Here are two pictures from Cars and Coffee this past Saturday:

 

So many S2Ks!