How many times have you changed the oil in said vehicle? Is this the first time it's been too tight?I seem to have an overtightened, by me, drain plug. Any suggestions? Tomorrow morning I'll try the Visegrips and a hammer. Thanks
If you have a small pipe wrench available, it will be able to get a much better grip than Visegrips due to the design of the jaws (the more torque you apply, the better the grip, regardless of the shape of the surface being gripped).I seem to have an overtightened, by me, drain plug. Any suggestions? Tomorrow morning I'll try the Visegrips and a hammer. Thanks
We've all made mistakes and I've been real stupid before. What I do now is use an INCH POUND torque wrench and 6 point American made socket on my oil drain plug. Mine is factory spec to 22 ft. lbs. I go to 240 in. lbs. (20 ft. lbs.) Call me OCD or anything you wish; I've rounded off a plug due to my own idiocy before and that wasn't a fun experience. If you can learn from my stupidity more power to you. I wish you well.I seem to have an overtightened, by me, drain plug. Any suggestions? Tomorrow morning I'll try the Visegrips and a hammer. Thanks
Experience is recognizing you've made the same mistake again.We've all made mistakes and I've been real stupid before. What I do now is use an INCH POUND torque wrench and 6 point American made socket on my oil drain plug. Mine is factory spec to 22 ft. lbs. I go to 240 in. lbs. (20 ft. lbs.) Call me OCD or anything you wish; I've rounded off a plug due to my own idiocy before and that wasn't a fun experience. If you can learn from my stupidity more power to you. I wish you well.
If it’s that tight or stripped I’d definitely try a 6 point socket to not farther strip the drain plugBuy a 1/2-inch-drive 12-point socket and a 1/2-drive handle.
Oil-drain plugs are never meant to be tightened much. I don't even tighten them to the factory torque spec, as there is a gasket under them. The only times the oil-drain plug would regularly come loose were because of a hard, springy synthetic-cork-like gasket material Toyota used once, and even then, it never leaked. The older-version Toyota 90915-10003 oil-drain-plug gasket was superseded by an aluminum gasket covered with a soft gasket material.
I seem to have an overtightened, by me, drain plug. Any suggestions? Tomorrow morning I'll try the Visegrips and a hammer. Thanks