looking for weldless oil pan drain fittings!
10-04-2006, 10:40 PM
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You can either use a -10 bulkhead fitting, or a -10 union/coupler, depending on how thick your oil pan is. Sonny did a good write up on this a while back:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=404243
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I also had to put the oil return line fitting into the oil pan. I decided to use a -10 AN bulkhead style fitting that I got from amstreetrod.com (Thanks for the tip, Dan). To seal it, I used "stratoseals" also available from amstreetrod.com. It's basically a washer with an O-ring fused into the center:
It was damn near impossible to find a drill bit that was 7/8" large that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Either the shank was too big for my drill or it was the wrong kind of bit. So, I got a Unibit style bit from eBay. Brand new for $19. They're bitchin because they make perfectly round holes:
This is the hole made by the Unibit.
I put Hondabond on the metal part of the stratoseal and installed the fitting:
Here's a look from the inside. I cut off the back nipple of the bulkhead fitting since I didn't need it. I had to some grinding inside the pan so that the washer would be on a flat surface:
One step closer! That's a -10AN cap that I got from Stan. Thanks, man.
Sonny
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I did the same thing, but I used one of these instead:
I did my last drain that way on my old D16Y8 and had no problems with it. I also did it the same way on my B18B and had 0 problems.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=404243
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Sonny »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
I also had to put the oil return line fitting into the oil pan. I decided to use a -10 AN bulkhead style fitting that I got from amstreetrod.com (Thanks for the tip, Dan). To seal it, I used "stratoseals" also available from amstreetrod.com. It's basically a washer with an O-ring fused into the center:
It was damn near impossible to find a drill bit that was 7/8" large that didn't cost an arm and a leg. Either the shank was too big for my drill or it was the wrong kind of bit. So, I got a Unibit style bit from eBay. Brand new for $19. They're bitchin because they make perfectly round holes:
This is the hole made by the Unibit.
I put Hondabond on the metal part of the stratoseal and installed the fitting:
Here's a look from the inside. I cut off the back nipple of the bulkhead fitting since I didn't need it. I had to some grinding inside the pan so that the washer would be on a flat surface:
One step closer! That's a -10AN cap that I got from Stan. Thanks, man.
Sonny
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I did the same thing, but I used one of these instead:
I did my last drain that way on my old D16Y8 and had no problems with it. I also did it the same way on my B18B and had 0 problems.
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