How to Remove a Spinning Bolt

Pan bolts should be 8mm, probably 20mm long. Start the two rear bolts by hand using your socket. Do not run the bolts up too tight. If you drain the torque you should have drained most of the fluid from it so you can add all the recommended amount but for maybe a quart.

Automatic Transmission Oil Pan Bolt by Genuine®. Size: 6 mm x 28.5 mm.

1. Use a Magnet. If you have a magnet handy in your toolbox, you can use it to attract the spinning screw to force it out of place.
2. Use Brute Force. It’s no more Mr.
3. Use a Flat Screw Driver.
4. It’s Time to Bring the Heat.
5. Start Drilling.
6. Use a Hacksaw.
7. Crack the Bad Nut.
8. Use a Grinder.

A bolt may keep spinning in place if there is a hole filled with some dust. Dust can act as a lubricant, causing the bolt to keep spinning without actually coming off. Another reason a bolt may keep spinning without coming off is if the wrong bolt was used.

Don’t try to rethread the entire bolt, hole or nut in one operation. Insert the rethreading tap or die and rotate a few turns, then back it off a full turn. That will dislodge the debris from the teeth.

The complete repair for stripped threads is to use a coil-type thread insert. These inserts will give the bolt hole completely new threads which accept the size of the original bolt. In order to use inserts, you must drill the damaged holes slightly larger so that it can take the thread insert.

Loctite® Form-A-Thread® Stripped Thread Repair, makes reliable thread repairs without drills, taps, tools, or inserts. It restores worn, stripped or damaged threads and eliminates future corrosion, galling, seizing, and rust, and allows up to 128 ft.

Threading PVC pipe is used for mechanically joining two sections of the plastic tubing. This process is used for containing higher pressures, greater than 100 pounds per square inch (PSI). Only schedule 80 and schedule 120 PVC pipe can be threaded. The wall thickness on schedule 40 PVC pipe is too thin.