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Old November 15th, 2018, 06:55 AM   #20
Triple Jim
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Originally Posted by Ceeloo Yello View Post
The difference here is that in this situation gravity is your friend.
You're right about that being a difference, but I would bet that if I tried the greased tap method on a drain hole, greasy chips would be all inside around the rethreaded hole. Maybe at that point you could take a bent strip of metal and scrape them out of the hole, but only if there's no lip around the edge.

I think the reason the greased tap method works so well is that most engines have full flow oil filters, so anything getting into the oil pump through the pickup screen is filtered out before being pumped to the bearings. The pump itself won't like the chips though.

And maybe I'm wrong. I won't rely on that method being perfect though.
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