Oil Pan Threads Stripped Help - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

REDSOXTICKET · 06-10-2005, 08:48 PM

I stripped my oil pan threads

(Camry 01 V6) and I need some advise soon

I can go to the dealer and get the next size drain plug and tap threads into the oil pan.
Can you tap into the oil pan it may be aluminum?
As anyone done this before ? or am I stuck on getting a new pan ?
Need your help

THX

Diehonda · 06-10-2005, 09:23 PM

You are not stuck. Get either the rethreading plug from the dealership or jiffy lube.OR get a winged plug from Jiffy Lube that butterflies inside of the pan and tightens to the plug. Difficult to explain but ask them about it. It works. Or drop some bucks on a new oil pan OR take yours off and try to rethread it with a rethreader. You will have to take the plug to the parts store with you to find out what thread it is, and also get a new gasket. I am not sure if yours is the liquid gasket sealer or anm actual rubber gasket.(i have a 4cyl) But those are your options. The plug from Jiffy Lube is the fastes and cheapest route that actually works. Then when you go to change your oil next time you just loosen it, not having to actually take it out.

Good luck.

REDSOXTICKET · 06-10-2005, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Diehonda

OR take yours off and try to rethread it with a rethreader. You will have to take the plug to the parts store with you to find out what thread it is, and also get a new gasket.

I totally agree with your suggestions. I will check out the self tapping plugs.

In your above quote, you mentioned to remove pan to rethread. would this be because of metal shavings possibly getting into the oil thus ruining the engine ?

Rethreading in small increments and cleaning between increments should help with shavings but there is always a chance that a metal shaving will get thru. This can also be true for the self tapping plugs.

It doesn't appear to me that rethreading is as common as the self tapping plugs and if that is true I wish I knew why.

THX

skewe · 06-11-2005, 07:36 AM

i do not mean to burst your bubble.

some dope (either walmart or charbill's tire) strip my oil pan.

After running around, and doing what was mentioned above. The problem comes back to me whenever i go for an oil change. Just a lot of grieve.

Just bite the bullet and change the oil pan.
90$ or so.

Spent lot of time and $$

REDSOXTICKET · 06-11-2005, 09:11 AM

I picked up a single oversized piggy back plug. This plug is oversized 1x and threads into the aluminum oil pan (outer), there is another plug (inner) that is in the center which is the one that gets removed when changing the oil. I would use a wrench to hold the outer plug in place while removing the inner plug to drain the oil. I will put blue thread sealer which is the removable type to the outer plug.

skewe====> Did you use the piggyback plug ? What plug did you use ?
The single oversize plug with no piggyback I can see causing problems
because the plug will always be removed from the soft aluminum.

I will be installing the plug once the oil pan is dry so blue thread loch will work properly.

I priced the oil pan for my car at Toyota for $157.00, I probably can get a 20% discount but $90.00 is a good price. Did you buy it on line ?

I may replace the oil pan but I'm I will try this first because it may work and give me more time to shop for a oil pan and mechanic. I use a mechanic but if a Toyota mechanics labor is the same I may go with the Toyota since they do this more often.

REDSOXTICKET · 06-11-2005, 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skewe

After running around, and doing what was mentioned above. The problem comes back to me whenever i go for an oil change. Just a lot of grieve.

Just bite the bullet and change the oil pan.
90$ or so.

Spent lot of time and $$

The oversized piggyback plug did not tighten down to the point were I feel confident. There is two much at risk.

I'm going with changing the oil pan.

Diehonda · 06-13-2005, 07:33 AM

Look for a Hybrid, if they have them for yours. Alum up top and steel bottom.

ericfuentes · 03-20-2009, 10:18 AM

You can repair the stripped oil drain pan with a TIME-SERT.
http://www.timesert.com/html/drainplug.html

Regards,
Eric

cotamaniac · 05-21-2009, 10:03 AM

Using the oil drain valve is a good idea to prevent stripping the oil pan threads. It replaces your oil drain plug and don't need to take it off when you drain oil.
www.qwikvalve.com

npolite · 05-22-2009, 08:13 AM

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Originally Posted by cotamaniac

Using the oil drain valve is a good idea to prevent stripping the oil pan threads. It replaces your oil drain plug and don't need to take it off when you drain oil.
www.qwikvalve.com

I wouldn't be confident is using one of these for long term. Not saying this will happen on this but every water valve that I have seen doesn't close completely and still lets water in.

Handy man · 08-19-2010, 07:08 AM

I went to the Auto Zone and bought a new drain plug size 14 together with a tab for the plug of size 14. Drilled the hole bigger IAW the tab. You should do a little research over the internet to find the drill hole - tab size chart. Tabbed new thread for the oil pan. I then poured the old oil back to clean the debris. Put the new oil plug in. Put the new oil in.

tekdemon · 08-19-2010, 08:10 PM

If you can get a used oil pan cheap it might not even be worth the effort to drill the oil pan.

AlmightyCamry777 · 08-27-2010, 05:04 PM

These type of threads always perturb me, 9 times of 10 it's done by some so-called technician who in reality doesn't know one end of a wrench from the other. I've changed oil on dozens of vehicles maybe a thousand times and never stripped a drain plug. There's no good reason for this to happen, none. It's almost always caused by carelessness.

Reason #1 why i change my own oil and will continue to do it until i am too old and decrepit to crawl under.