Au owners... dont use this for a sump plug

[Psycho Chicken]

Dead set that's how I got it! Didn't think anything of it til I pulled it out and found the electrode.

[INJECTED_250]

hm...... how many au's are getting around there with extra sparkplug performance mods....

[GK]

Originally Posted by JC

On a serious note, has anyone tried the magnetic sump plugs on ebay? They apparently catch and hold any metal fragments in the oil (I presume ones that escape from the filter). Would be interested to know if they actually work, but I'm sick of being a guinea pig (sucker??) with these things, lol.

I reckon they'd be worth go. Only 10 bucks and a little postage. I guess after the first oil change you'd see soon enough what is escaping the filter.

GK

[AUIII XR8 MAN]

LOL. But if it gets you buy in a emergency what not?

[Whoosha]

so what happens when you conect the number 6 lead and crank it ????????? :yeees:

[Ringo]

Originally Posted by Whoosha

so what happens when you conect the number 6 lead and crank it ????????? :yeees:

you modifiy the engine....... :hihi:

[Ringo]

A few year back we got a car that came into the shop with a little tap for a sump plug. You just turn the tap and drain away.

We warned that if a stone hit it just right there was a chance it could turn the tap on and drain the oil. The guy agreed but didn't say he was going to change it back to a proper sump bolt.

[banarcus]

Just out of curiosity, I wonder how many people here who have commented on this would actually know where their sump plug is and if they do, have they actually changed their oil before??

I had a 2L Escort that had its sump plug ripped out by a big damn rock and had to find a quick method of getting the thing fixed so I could get it home. Theres nothing wrong with that if thats all you've got to get you and the family home.

[XR6-VCT-2000]

lol....This thread reminds me of a show that was on channel 2 about 2 years back , it was actually called "Bush Mechanics" , it was a pack of aboriginals driving around in the outback ..lol .. just about everything went wrong with the car ! , amazing what they came up with , they even made their own new leaf suspension from branches ! , made a tailshaft from a log , killed the fuelpump / so they wired the windscreen wiper bottle to the carby and filled the bottle with fuel and pumped it from inside the car while driving with the windscreen wiper control ...lol , was a cracker of a show , surely someone else one here must of seen it ! , it was actually played the next week following aswell / same channel etc etc .


EDIT ...oh , just remembered too , the crazy nutters got a flat battery during the night cos they had they highbeams on over the campfire area during the night.
Next morning they awake to a totally dead battery, the crazy nutts actually throw the battery into the FIRE ! ( here's me waiting for it to explode ) .. all of them standing around it , just before its about to melt they pull it off the fire , bang it in the car , and "BROOM BROOM' , off they go ...lol

[james22]

yeah that was an awesome show, they showed some real ingenuity.

[Smoked]

Originally Posted by XR6-VCT-2000

Next morning they awake to a totally dead battery, the crazy nutts actually throw the battery into the FIRE ! ( here's me waiting for it to explode ) .. all of them standing around it , just before its about to melt they pull it off the fire , bang it in the car , and "BROOM BROOM' , off they go ...lol

Thats actually sort quite smart. Though, dont think I'd try it.

[XR6-VCT-2000]

Originally Posted by Smoked

Thats actually sort quite smart. Though, dont think I'd try it.

lol , yeah i've heard of pouring hot water over a cold battery on a cold morning if it's flat ( and it does work , i've had to do it in the past ) .. but throwing the battery onto an open fire ! ..lol , i don't know how explosive those batterys are , but it warns on them to even keep away from sparks , little lone chucking it in a fire ! - and standing around it only 1m away at the most ! - they were god darn crazy .. hehehe

[FTE217]

Originally Posted by MRJUCY

Well it's official then AU owners have become the new Eseries..

hehe as good as using fridge parts for airboxs :Reverend:

[XR6-VCT-2000]

When you think of it , really if you didn't have another short bolt lying around the right size thread / and if the sparkplug is the same thread size / cleaned up with the electrode cut off like in the pic above / what better plug could you use really ! apart from a magnatized 1 maybe ).
Im sure it would do the job just fine if it can keep seal under pressure while in a engine head , it can put up with the pressure and heat without leaking without using any extra brass washers or anything ( the sparkplug already has it own washer/seal ) .

Quite a good idea actually ..lol

cheers

[Psycho Chicken]

I dare say there's a few apprentices out there who lose sump plugs and don't want to fess up.

[The Monty]

That show is still on now and again. Its a classic.
They had all this music gear on the roof, and the roof caved in. So they cut the roof off with a machette, found some wire and towed the music gear on the roof behind the car. The car only had 1 door, and no headlights and it soon became night, so the whipped out a spotty, hooked it up directly to the battery, and one of them just sat there and held it for the trip. The poor car only sounded like it was running on one cylinder as well.

[LOWAU]

Originally Posted by XR6-VCT-2000

lol , yeah i've heard of pouring hot water over a cold battery on a cold morning if it's flat ( and it does work , i've had to do it in the past ) .. but throwing the battery onto an open fire ! ..lol , i don't know how explosive those batterys are , but it warns on them to even keep away from sparks , little lone chucking it in a fire ! - and standing around it only 1m away at the most ! - they were god darn crazy .. hehehe

Yeah i watched that show, the one thing i liked was brake fluid made from washing machine powder for hot water mixed with cold water.

[blakeyboy]

those oil plugs with magnets on them are used in just about every racing gearbox and diff i have come across.. and they do a good job of picking up the teeth that drivers feel are no longer necessary. :

hewland... hollinger.. even v8 supercar 9inch diffs. never seen one in the engine oil though.... that doesn't mean it wont work.. actually can think of a few times it would have saved a motor.

there is thermodynamics to explain why a lead acid battery will work better when warm... but really no one in there right mind wants to do thermo : ... so all you need to know is that the current it can supply improves as you heat it up from near freezing... at normal everyday temps (25C) it won't help much.