2002MK4
Veteran Member
Just wondering if I can re use the same bolt in a helixcoil set up in my oil pan a few times??? Sure would like to postpone my oil pan change till 2013???
Helixcoil re-use?
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BobnOH
not-a-mechanic
a properly installed helicoil is as good or better than the original.
Are we talking drain plug? If it don't leak it don't leak
Are we talking drain plug? If it don't leak it don't leak
scurvy
Good Ol' Boy
The drain bolt can be used multiple times if it's going into a threaded insert. The helicoil is only good for repairing threads once.
Why not install a Fumoto valve and be done with it?
Why not install a Fumoto valve and be done with it?
I had one installed on a replacement cylinder head of a lawn mower due to spripped spark plug threads. I had replaced the original Al. head once already and when I went back for a 2nd replacement he told me that the helicoil would be more permanent.
vwdieseling
Veteran Member
The Fomoto plug works, but the threads for the 1.9 ALH pan don't match like they state. You will need to retap. Works great.
scurvy
Good Ol' Boy
Utter bollocks.
Installed one on our 2000 NB TDI and 2006 Golf TDI. Went in like a charm, leak free for life on both. You have to use the recommended nipple to get it out past the edge of the pan but no issues with that either.
vwdieseling
Veteran Member
I bought the nipple, wouldn't thread correctly. Thread pitch was off. Got it in though and tight.
scurvy
Good Ol' Boy
Then yours had a manufacturing defect or you bought the wrong one. The M14x1.5 on ADP106/F106/F106N is the same thread as the standard drain bolt for mk4 VWs.
vwdieseling
Veteran Member
I ordered the right one. They might have shipped the wrong one but I got the extension, oh well worked well.