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Old 04-28-2010, 03:33 PM
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sooooo i was draining a little bit of my oil out because i filled the car with to much and when i was screwing the plug back in i overtightened it broke the plug and i lost about half of my oil. so i went to autozone bought a new drain plug except now it wont even screw into the threads... what can i do ??
 
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Old 04-28-2010, 03:36 PM
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you probaably stripped the threads, you can.... buy a new oil pan, rethread your oil pan, or just buy a rubber oil plug from autozone and call it a day,
 
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Old 04-28-2010, 04:41 PM
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out of all of those options what would be easiest and what would be cheapest?
 
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