Changing the oil

[Mike F]

Thank you Mike, it's even an Aus. website. Part of my trouble was the
nomenclature (I wouldn't have called it a socket... or a pipe plug). I will
see how the bit I have works first but might bite the bullet despite the
price - my engineering substitutions usually don't go too well partly
because the workshop is a bit too basic & now full of leftovers from
daughters' attempts at leaving home.

Yeah, I could see from your ISP that you were in Australia. Change the
word "australia" to "canada" and see it only would cost me C$ 14.60, or
about A$ 15.31 at today's exchange rate, about half what you'd pay.
Ouch!

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Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

Replace tt with t (twice!) and remove parentheses to email me directly.
(But I check the newsgroup more often than this email address.)

 

[jg]

Yeah, I could see from your ISP that you were in Australia. Change the
word "australia" to "canada" and see it only would cost me C$ 14.60, or
about A$ 15.31 at today's exchange rate, about half what you'd pay.
Ouch!

If I thought everything was that comparitively cheap I might consider
changing the word on my address. I always believed Daivd Suzuki when he said
Aust & Canada were similar in being resources bread-baskets & yet economic
basket cases. Much we buy here now is Chinese & so cheap it's scarey & the
quality is improving quicker than Jap stuff did. Still an ex-Canadian mate
of mine is doing well here - his business is called Spir(r?)it River &
exporting radio aerials, hates more than anything being called a yank.

 

[z]

Find a short piece of square bar stock that will fit it, and apply a
Crescent wrench.

Then borrow a car and go buy a conventional drain plug and replace

it.

Switch over to a drain valve. Fumoto, for instance.

 

[John Robertson]

RIP IT OUT WITH A ALLEN KEY REPLACE IT WITH A NORMAL NUT ,STUPID FROGGY IDEA
..
I sadly admit I once owned a V6 264 wish synthetic oil was around back then
..Dont trust any people who eat snails and frogs .Amechanic should have it
out in a jiffy or use a key near the fit using a screw driver to make up the
difference .P\s a falcon oil filter will fit straight on much cheaper too
..Z9