Crack in oil pan

[pat]

Jeeze, hindsight being 20/20, I would go with a fluid extractor.  Don't even
mess with the drain plug.

 

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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of Fred Munro
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:35 PM
To: 'Jay M'; esanborn at gmail.com; chance9121 at gmail.com
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: RE: Crack in oil pan

 

Jay;

I don't know about the A6, but the large M26 drain plug on the UrS oil pan
can be very difficult to remove if it is overtorqued on installation - as in
impossible to remove. I recall at least one lister who had to weld a socket
onto the oil pan plug to get it off after stripping the head and exhausting
all other alternatives. When I bought my UrS4, the drain plug head was badly
mangled and the plug was extremely tight. I've found that torquing the plug
to the 25 ft.lb spec makes it easy to remove at the next oil change.
Anything tighter and it can be very difficult. If the A6 pan has the same
issue, the plug may have extremely tight and the tech cracked the pan
wrestling with it. If that is the case, they know what they did. What kind
of shape is the hex head on the plug in? Is it a new plug? (i.e. they
mangled the old one and replaced it).

HTH

Fred Munro
'97 S6