Here you go mate, I just saved you $25Cheapo fridge magnet on an oil drain plug.I have one in every car, and every small engine I own.
>>28931490I would be afraid of the magnet falling off inside the engine
>>28931496So it can sit at the bottom of the pan?
>>28931498Hopefully
Why not a magnet around the filter since that is where you would want unwanted particulates?
>>28931508Well, it'd already filter those out without a magnet.
>>28931490My drain plug is made of brass :(
>>28931490The magnetic drain plug on my LS1 was $6.
>>28931490attractive
>>28931498My oil pan is aluminum, the nearest ferrous object to the plug is the oil pickup screen. Probably not catastrophic but I don't love the idea of blocking any amount of surface area it has for flow.
>>28931490I came in your mom
>>28931526Don't model t's have a total loss oiling system anyway?
>>28931775go away fake p, stop begging for my attention
>>28931717there is zero chance of a magnet dislodging itself from the drain plug and getting stuck to the pickup.if that somehow happens it'll attach itself to the shroud, not the screen.even if all your shit is plastic and aluminum, the next place would be the windage tray.
>>28932156My pickup tube is significantly closer to the drain plug than the windage tray is (which would also be blocked by a baffle in the pan that surrounds the screen)
>>28932238thats a lot of screen area, a magnet with less than 1cm3 surface area wont impede anything.those pickups are designed to flow with half of it blocked off.the magnet is more likely to stick to the denser lip that holds the screen in place than the screen itself.the pan baffle is steel toobasically its a non issue. nothing to worry about.ive been running a loose magnet on my drain plug in my nb miata for years now, it has never come loose.
>>28931490>I justIncreased the chances for catastrophic engine damage.Stick to drinking beer and shit music, KID ROCK.bitch
>>28932310You do you, I prefer the peace of mind of just sucking it up and buying a plug with the magnet embedded for my NB Miata
>>28932344I own 4 cars. That's 4 engine drain plugs, 4 transmission plugs, 6 diff plugs.(also my parents cars, brothers car, his gfs car, mine gf car, like 9 cars and 20+ plugs)Buying a properly USA made drain plug @ $25 each is a bit too much.And then there are all the small engines that I own. I'm not buying fancy plugs for those.pic related is what I got once, really good but not for every car.cheapo $6 plugs are chink trash.
>>28931490what is that going to do that the fine fabric mesh than your oil is constantly getting filtered through won't?
>>28931490What if I have an engine that doesn't drop bits of metal into the oil pan?
>>28932365Your transmission and diff drain plugs didn't come with a magnet already? I don't think I've ever seen one that didn't. That's actually the same plug I got for my NB, nice
>>28932416some do, some dont. ones that do generally have a weaker ceramic magnet.
>>28931496>falling offits a permanent magnet
>>28932371t; it does
>>28931519So what's the issue?
>>28932484>what are vibrations
>>28932492If your engine vibrated enough to dislodge a neodymium magnet from the drain plug accessories would be flying off of it
>>28932491Well, in my opinion it's always worth having redundant filtration devices placed throughout the engine. I've seen people drop washers, circlips, and other random stuff in the engine while rebuilding it.I found a copper crush washer laying in the engine of a bike I bought. A Magnetic plug costs like $15 and who knows, maybe it will catch a random JIS bit you unknowingly catapulted into your engine one day.Makes it easier to check for metal shaving in oil when doing an oil change as well.
>>28932522a magnet might stop all the other shit but against a copper washer you'd be fucked anyway, if its weight didn't stop it from moving around.
>>28932484>permanentthe battery will die eventually though
>>28932577I know, I'm just saying you never know what someone's left in your engine.I'm super lucky the washer never made its way into anywhere important.
>>28932484is that like lifetime transmission fluid?
>>28931496>>28931498Why not stick it on the outside of the oil pan?
>>28932741Works if your oil pan is steel
>>28932746and if you remove it every oil change
>>28931496Yeah I hate when magnets magically detach themselves, float directly upwards through the oil without touching any other metallic surroundings and straight into the pistons therefore killing the engine
>>28933150Fluid dynamics are strange
