How to Choose Magnetic Oil Drain Plug?

This is not an oil thread- it's an oil drain plug thread! previous owner rounded off the oil drain plug pretty good, so i figured while it was off for the winter drain/change i'd replace it. Found a magnetic one and bought it, but i'm less than impressed. First, while the thread pitch and diameter is correct, the length is about half of the stock one: 8mm vs 15mm. That means only 4 full threads hold it in the sump- that doesn't give me peice of mind at all. Second, the hex is only 7mm tall vs 10mm shouldered stock peice.

By eric hsu somebody forwarded this email to me today where this new company, titek, was promoting their magnetic drain plugs for an engine’s oil pan. While the concept is somewhat novel, it’s application is kind of dumb. A magnetic drain plug (mdp) has its place in a transmission with steel gears or a rear end with steel gears and metallic clutches where bits of steel can actually float around in the oil. However, a mdp actually has no place in an engine’s crankcase if you really think about it. In the remote possibility that your engine’s cams are gear driven, an mdp might have a place, but chances are if you are reading this blog your engine does not have gear driven cams.

Description powerful magnets embedded in the plugs catch any ferrous metallic particles that might be scraped from cylinder walls or gears, etc. Simply clean metallic particles off next time you drain the oil. Select by size. Includes magnetic drain plug and crush washer.

Can anyone tell me if a 2012 k1600 gtl which arrived from the factory in early august of 2012 has any magnetic drain plugs? i noticed a magnetic oil drain plug advertised (i assume for the engine crankcase oil) and was thinking of ordering one, but then could that idea also be applicable for some of the other fluids as well? although it seems when i went to change oil on a bike i once owned it already had a magnetic engine oil drain plug in it that i found when i drained the oil. Or maybe it was the final drive??? not sure if the magnetic plug came as original equipment or someone had added it as an accessory.

How to Install a Magnetic Oil Pan Drain Plug?

I changed the oil a few minutes ago. I installed the new dimple drain plug into the oil pan. Its tricky to get in. It wants to stick to the steel pan. Haw haw haw!!! i, of course, replaced the oil filter with a factory tokyo roki filter. I also reinstalled the two filtermag magnets onto the filter. Hopefully the plug will have little, to nothing on it when i change the oil again in 6 months, which means the filter mags are doing their job at the bypass. The milage currently is 59,309. I clear-flood cranked it until i got oil pressure, and started it.

My cars i had ordered a magnetic drain plug but then got worried about installing it for fear of the magnet part coming loose. Then, when i had to re drill the pan cuz my drain plug was spinning round and round i took a good look inside and removed the round cover that has a metal strainer. I just can't imagine how anything would get passed that so now i'm not as concerned. I still won't put it on though cuz it literally looks line someone glued a magnet to the end.

My 2017 h. O. Ecoboost has a plastic drain plug and a plastic oil pan. You only turn the plug 1/4 turn to remove it and re-install it. I'm not sure if it's just the ecoboosts that have this?? i've done 2 oil changes so far. I'm not real crazy about the idea but i doubt i'll have any issues with it. I'll just change the o-ring every so often. I'm pretty sure there aren't any aftermarket magnetic replacements yet.

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magnetic sump plug, are they worth it?

Sounds like your plug is doing its job. 5k is still around the breakin. I wouldn't worry about it. If this is any indicator, i ran a vehicle health report last night and my car has about 4250 on the odo, and the report said i had 60% oil life left. This would indicate to me that they expect 10k oil changes. For what it is worth, i have a mishimoto magnetic plug on mine that i installed at the 1k change i did. I'm interested to see what it picked up too, but as long as there aren't any big-ass chunks of metal, you are fine.

Magnetic sump plugs tend to be used in transmissions and final drives (diffs) where there are a whole bunch of ferrous gears meshing together. The engine is primarily made of aluminum, except for the crank, rings, gudgeon/wrist pins, valves, timing chain and sprockets. I'm guessing the main bearings would be made from stainless steel (cages) and alloy steels (inner and outer races and the balls) so may not be magnetic. Obviously the gear box is sharing the same oil tho as its a motorcycle, so that would be good enough reason to use a magnetic sump plug imo. 2013 cbr250 & 2015 cbr300 (sold).

I thought to change my sump plug (and subsequently gearbox and diff - tr4) to the magnetic type next time i change my oil and so bought a goldplug ip-03x to try ( https://goldplug. Com/shop/ip03x/ ) which seems to come as recommended by many. My question though is simple. Should i use a washer with this plug? it came without and all pictures of this show it without a washer although their other plugs do show washers. The current tapered plug doesn't of course use a washer so just checking before i start to drain and then realise i should have bought a washer! perhaps there is a taper to it (not obvious with my failing eyesight) and hence why it comes without.

So does a magnetic oil drain plug work? yes it does! if you don’t have a magnetic drain plug it’s worth it to get one. As seen in the video above, it does what it says it will do; filter out some of the parts that otherwise would float around your engine oil. Installing a magnetic sump plug will not cost you the world. It is a cheap modification that you can install at every oil change interval. Since the drain plug will come of every oil change anyway. If you ask your mechanic to replace it at the next maintenance interval he will probably do it without any extra charge.

Magnetic Drain Plugs: Really worth it?

Some guys on performance engines like to add the magnetic drain plugs. For our newer sport bikes made with titanium valves and other parts and aluminum cases, rods, pistons and cylinders there really isn't any iron to be magnetic in the engines. I am not sure if porsche uses alloy rings and bearings for the engines but i do wonder what is iron in the engine internals. Anybody know?.

Zac agee said: alot engines have a pressure bypass at the filter usually only about 15-25 pounds of oil pressure is actually filtered the rest is bypassed to keep the engine from starving of oil. This is because the filter slows the flow of oil as it's pushed thrue the element. Now idk for sure on bikes and all the new cars that run synthetic oil if this is still the same. But for as cheap as the magnetic drain plugs are i use them on every engine.

Wheres the oil drain plug?

Hi guys i went to drift day and saw one of these aftermarket oil plugs at the www. Cartune. Com booth. They had these huge magnets on the bolts but they didn't have any for mazda's. I found a site that has them and emailed him for the size. Here's his response. So for the rest that want to clean the metal particles out of the oil. Here you go. Hello, mazda has used a 14mm oil drain plug for almost all of their cars and light trucks since 1971. I do not have a listing for the 2004 rx8 1.

I bought a 2010 rt from a guy on ebay. It had a dimple oil drain plug on it and i did not know it until i did my first oil change on the bike. In my experience the plug does a good job pulling out micro particles of metal. Every time i change the oil, the plug is covered with a very fine mush that i assume are metal particles. I suppose if there were bigger pieces it would scarf them up as well. Let me say this about the company. The plug that came with the bike had a rubber o ring and it was pretty well buggered up (but did not leak), so i called the company and first had them identify that the plug was really theirs and then ask for replacement o rings.

Im going to do the first oil change on my first bike, 2009 gsxr600. I know from working on my cars, sometimes small fine metal particles will accumulate in the oil after engine work, or in this case, during the first 600 miles on a brand new engine. On cars, i have bought magnetized drain plugs to supplement the oil filter in collecting such metal particles. Does anybody know of such magnetized drain plug bolts for my bikeand where to get one?.

Quote: originally posted by blackfairlady i was told today from one of the managers of a local parts store that a magnetic plug for the transmission would be relatively pointless. A magnetic plug is more useful for the motor because it helps keep the oil pump free of small metal shards. The trans does not have such a pump. He said to just keep the fluid changed at the recommended intervals, with quality fluid. He said that i would be hard pressed finding the size of the nissan transmission drain plug in a magnetic version. Apparently it's not really metric, but a standard hose thread?? idk.