Hit the end of a rachet with a damn hammer and be done with it unless you done stripped the thing trying to do it with vise grips. That was a stupid move because vise grips can't get a full grip on the bolt head and are easy to slip off and strip away the bolt head. You're making things harder than they actually are. I can take a rachet and hammer and remove lug nuts torqued to 150lbs, much less an oil pan bolt.
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Hit the end of a rachet with a damn hammer and be done with it unless you done stripped the thing trying to do it with vise grips. That was a stupid move because vise grips can't get a full grip on the bolt head and are easy to slip off and strip away the bolt head. You're making things harder than they actually are. I can take a rachet and hammer and remove lug nuts torqued to 150lbs, much less an oil pan bolt.
Storm-Chaser
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You may also be able to get a copy of the charge from your credit card issuer, if you paid with a cc.
If the vehicle is driveable, I sure would take it back. Why should you have to pay for repairs or live with an oil pan they damaged/ruined? They might even try to hide the prior damage by repairing it without notifying you !
Until that bolt is removed, it is obvious "who" improperly installed the bolt and damaged your oil pan as a result. Once it's removed, they can claim anyone cross-threaded the bolt, including yourself.
Nrw7
Oil change kid
Its done I finnally got it off. If Kirk sees this he'll probally tell you the whole long embrassing story.
What, you were turning the wrong way or were trying to remove something other than the oil pan bolt?
Nrw7
Oil change kid
No it was after that. I really don't want to talk about it right now, maybe later.
93rev2sev
SHO Member
It's later...
[lie] Comon...we wont laugh [/lie]
[lie] Comon...we wont laugh [/lie]
bigred56k
N.A.B.
Yeah I Want To Know What Happened?
Nrw7
Oil change kid
Jeez you guys have good memories I thought I would get away with out telling the story. But lets just say that the amount of oil that was supposed to be put in was a "little" to much.
Mr Anonymous
Tire Wall
Yeah, some day we'll tell the story of the 22 QUART V6 SHO oil change... :laugh_ti:
sho'd
Git R' Done
how the heck did you get 22 quarts of oil in a engine?? lmao. expensive oil change.
Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
top it off? I'm kinda curious too..
Mr Anonymous
Tire Wall
I've decided I'm saving the story for the convention, so if you want to hear it, you'll have to show up in Kalamazoo! 
Nrw7
Oil change kid
Oooo so say it when I'm not around.lol. Yea I don't know what the **** I was thinking. and 22 was the total amountof oil I used.
You forget to put the plug back in and it ends up all over the floor.
bigred56k
N.A.B.
Wow...that's amazing if you didn't blow any oil seals! 
I can imagine the look on the face of whoever removed the oil pan bolt and was waiting for the oil to stop pouring, and/or had to stop the flow and grab another drain pan! 
I can imagine the look on the face of whoever removed the oil pan bolt and was waiting for the oil to stop pouring, and/or had to stop the flow and grab another drain pan! 
That happened to me on an old Torino I had. I had to keep adding tranny fluid and could not figure out where it was going.
One day the engine started gurgling and I checked the oil. It was way up the dipstick. It had all been sucked up through a bad vacuum modulator. I bet there was 5 gallons in the engine.
Ran good after the cleaning though.
One day the engine started gurgling and I checked the oil. It was way up the dipstick. It had all been sucked up through a bad vacuum modulator. I bet there was 5 gallons in the engine.
Ran good after the cleaning though.
Storm-Chaser
New Member
:laugh_ti:
... but that still doesn't explain not being able to remove the drain plug....
.... something is still missing from this "story".... :laugh_ti:
Nrw7
Oil change kid
Oh that was the easy part I just needed the right size easy out, which the damn kit I bought didn't come with.
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