King of stripped bolts...is this a good temporary fix?

... and miss all of these great threads??

 

Billy Mayes here for Flex Seal!!!!!

 

Haha that was going to be my next temp fix if the RTV didn’t work

 

I went 100k miles before servicing my transmission. If you have done your fluid change it should be good to go for a very long time so a lazy temporary fix could be to just JB Weld the drain plug in there. If it somehow needs service or attention again, then replace the pan or do a Heli-Coil. Assuming your overflow plug is still OK so you can do a proper refill after gluing the drain plug in. I guess if that strips you could also JB Weld that.

 

Need to buy an oil suction tool for the dip stick and stay away from the drain pan Hi Hi

 

Like I always say, it’s better to be too loose than to be too tight

 

A Mechanical Engineering professor in college once told us (jokingly) that "the proper torque for any threaded fastener is 1/4 turn before it fails."

 

What torque specs never say is clean threads in good condition. Then there is the ongoing debate with or without lubrication/anti seize.

Always approach torque values incrementally. I always laugh at “experts” that set the value and just crank. Worse are those that set things like impacts for mounting tires and then give it hell.