I just changed my oil, but it seems as if the oil plug keeps on rotating even if i try to unscrew it or screw it. I know i didnt strip the bolt. Is there any way i can get it out?

 

thats sucks man! you gonna have to replace the oil pan. Re-tapping the pan is only a temporary fix and will eventually end up leaking. GL...

 

i know why its turning and its because i forgot to put the washer on the bolt. Is there an easy solution to taking it out?

 

The washer has nothing to do with the plug screwing in or unscrewing... you either stripped the threads on your oil pan, or the socket you are using on your ratchet is stripped and it's just spinning around the head of the drain plug. 12-point sockets are easy to strip(if that's what you're using), and you might just have an old socket that doesn't bite that good anymore.

The only other thing I can think of is that someone else put a smaller drain plug in your car, but if that was the case.. you would be leaking oil all over the place and your motor would probably be seized by now.

 

Call napa and get a +1 oversize drain bolt or do it right and get a new oil pan.The oil pan is easy to replace but a pita to get off but since you are putting on a new pan go ahead and bent the old pan getting it off.

 

replace the pan. its quick and easy.

 

how much would it cost to replace an aps oil pan?

 

damn that sucks, happened to me one time at this shop i was working at, screwing it on and it never got tight at all, i was like wtf...i think it was because they went to those easy lube places, they always tighten that thing way to tight. so i had to get a +1 overside, drill it out, re-tap it, and that was that. never had a problem with it since(or atleast customer never noticed)

 

Use a thin blade screw driver and lightly pry under the bolt head while unscrewing the bolt with a wrench. In most cases the nut in the oil pan is hardened steel and the softer steel drain plug is what gets stripped. If you are successful in removing the drain plug, inspect the threads in the pan and chase the thread with a tap coated with grease, so any burs stick to the grease rather than find themselves in the oil pan.

 

Same thing happened on my last car--took it to a chain for an oil change and the next shop I went to said the bolt rotates and won't come out, but no oil was leaking. They wrote me up a $1000 estimate for throwing in a new pan. I left there thinking that's what I might need, but I took it back to the place that f'd it up and they somehow removed the bolt and put in new one in. I think it's designed so that the bolt strips before the threaded insert in the oil pan does, but I'm not sure. Before I got it fixed I picked up a self-tapping tapered bolt from NAPA for $3.50, so that if the oil pan threads were stripped this slightly larger bolt would re-tap the hole as it went in. But it turns out I didn't need to use it. Might want to have one of those on hand, in addition to the regular bolt, when you get the stripped bolt out. I assume they took a pair of pliers and pulled and turned it to remove it, as opposed to drilling it out which would get metal shavings in the engine.

 

Happen to my R32 and cost $267 for a new oil pan