Electronic Tips: Safely Removing a Oiled Oil Drop Cork with 12mm Hex Key

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How to unscrew it to not break the thread in the oil pan (12mm hex key)

kwok · Answer

If someone tightened it too much, it will break anyway (unless you weld it earlier, but it still does not give 100% effectiveness), so turn the tube on the key and turn it.

bartek_j · Answer

You can knock solidly before unscrewing. Only with your head so as not to pat

jerry1960 · Answer

You can try to heat the bowl, e.g. with a heat gun, or you can suck the oil out with a suction cup.

mczapski · Answer

It is hard to find perfect advice. If the socket is still correct, then only a good, strong key and strength in your hands. Tapping an oil pan is a miserable idea. Heating up as a last resort, but it is also not easy. Possibly simultaneous unscrewing with an internal and external key or, for example, with a frog. Two people, of course.

robokop · Answer

Break the imbus 12 ??? Gentlemen, do not joke, the heads are tightened with 10 keys. The plugs in the bowls do not stick, at best they are too tight.

tzok · Answer

There is also a question of what the bowl is made of, because if it is steel and rusty, in my opinion it is better not to move, because the cork can come out with a piece of the bowl, or if the key pops out of the socket in the cork, it can make a hole in the bowl damaged by corrosion.
If the oil needs to be changed, suck it out through the "dipstick", and in the near future think about a new bowl.

robokop · Answer

Tzoku, how many rusty oil plugs have you seen? This jam - as when replacing a cold plug is screwed into a warm, usually aluminum bowl - there is a problem with unscrewing it, often with aluminum bowls it turns out that the plug was glued in - because the thread was damaged earlier. Either way - or pull forcibly using good key, or go to the service station, oil change with suction through the dipstick costs pennies.

zimny8 · Answer

And the oil sumps are unlikely to rust due to the alu. and in oil. Mate, match it and insert the key well, nothing will break, but in the right direction.

domellus · Answer

And here a colleague would be surprised because not all bowls are made of aluminum, they are still steel and rust and they are in oil As for the second part of the statement, my friend probably didn't do much traffic jams in his life

balonika3 · Answer

Weld a piece of the cap and then you know.

zimny8 · Answer

Not much can surprise me after 20 years of practice, although I am surprised that someone is still playing today at unscrewing the plugs due to changing the oil maybe home mechanics? I only wonder what they do with the used oil and filter later.

Zico63 · Answer

- it will come in handy for the stove And seriously, with the prices sung for this service by some specialists - I am not surprised people that they exchange themselves, and for this one circumstance they will not buy the equipment. Imbus 12 is hard to break - a fact, but if a colleague does such things himself, it is unlikely that he has tools, e.g. f-my St (...) hl, and these hexes from the market will work (or a hole in a cork) rather than will release the seized thread. Oxidized alu with oil + steel plug, I don't know if it's not worse than pure steel.

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