[V8] Amusing find

[Ron Wainwright]

Looks like there is a oil pan drain plug crush washer up there?!

All so if you haven't noticed...... the threaded piece there... make sure it's tight in the housing.
 In my vast experience with these...... "junkers".... I have noticed a few times that, that threaded piece has become loose on a few cars I've serviced.
 I have used a strap wrench to tighten it back up.

 & I thought I expressed clearley were that top starter bolt was? I suppose in my experiences I haven't had to deal with any hay

 Ron


--- On Fri, 2/20/09, toml99 at todomundo.com <toml99 at todomundo.com> wrote:

> From: toml99 at todomundo.com <toml99 at todomundo.com>
> Subject: [V8] Amusing find
> To: "v8audi" <v8 at audifans.com>
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 1:14 AM
> Hey, well I was taking the starter out of the Pearl
> car(DOTC) and  
> found something funny.  I should say I was FINISHING taking
> the  
> starter out of the car, as I had started 2 days ago, and
> the top bolt  
> took me an embarassingly long time.(whole event took more
> than the  
> book time on a timing belt).   Biggest problem was I'd
> taken off the  
> only 10mm allen I could find(tranny bolt), and the real
> starter bolt  
> was down below,buried under an inch of hay/hydraulic
> goo(car sat in a  
> cow field for some time).  In the end I'd cut a piece
> of 10mm allen  
> about an inch long, and got my "10mm ratchetting box
> end over the  
> end, and with a 8" piece of 1/2" pipe....got it
> loose.  I just  
> finished a complete stone bathroom remodel in a 100 yo
> house that  
> came out incredible, but the satisfaction of getting that
> bolt to  
> turn was soooo much more fulfilling.  Made my day.  Anyway,
> might  
> just take some pics and write it up since the knowledge
> base seems  
> like it's missing this  (factory manual was no help at
> all), but may  
> need some help getting it posted as I'm not up on the
> "wiki" code.   
> See if anything seems amiss in the photo....Sincerely Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 
> http://s217.photobucket.com/albums/cc268/blackmouth_photos/?
> 
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