[s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out

[Edward]

Hmm, I might just be desperate enough to try dropping the pan, if it
isn't too hard.  Any BTDT?  Bently mentions "Turn crankshaft until two
securing bolts (arrows) of oil pan are visible." as a step to do this.
 How does one manually turn the crankshaft on this engine?

Got a few more ideas from surfing audiworld till the wee hours last
night (good suggestion!).  Looks like hack saw out the copper ring,
hand file the bolt head into a smaller bolt size and torch the crap
out of the pan are my next options.  But if this fails, the pan
dropping will have to be my next course of action.

Ed

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:29:17 -0500, Kent McLean
<kentmclean at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Edward wrote:
> > I just spent 4 hours trying to get the oil drain plug out...
> 
> A Google of the Audifans site, searching on "stripped oil
> pan drain bolt", will give you a few suggestions.  If I was
> *really* desperate, I'd drill a hole into the plug to drain
> the oil, then drop the pan and attack the plug.
> 
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