Jim Laumann
06-26-2012, 10:32 AM
All
I just bought a wood splitter, and have been looking at the placement of the engine (a Honda) on the unit, and the location of the drain plugs. Naturally, the drain plugs are situated so that you can't help but get oil everywhere (on the frame) when changing it.
Were this a Briggs engine, I'd just hit the local hardware store, and get some pipe and fittings - and make a extended drain line. I have done this on some of my other L & G equipement, and has made the oil change process much cleaner.
So I'd like to do this same thing to the Honda - but there is the metric issue. The drain plugs look to be in the range of 1/4" / 6mm +/-, but UI won't know that for certain until the oil needs to be dropped the first time.
I haven't checked the hardware stores yet - so can threading machines cut metric pitch threads? Are metric threaded pipe & fittings available? Can standard black pipe - say 1/4" ID be threaded to a metric size w/o causing the pipe issues - ie weak side walls?
Thanks
Jim
I just bought a wood splitter, and have been looking at the placement of the engine (a Honda) on the unit, and the location of the drain plugs. Naturally, the drain plugs are situated so that you can't help but get oil everywhere (on the frame) when changing it.
Were this a Briggs engine, I'd just hit the local hardware store, and get some pipe and fittings - and make a extended drain line. I have done this on some of my other L & G equipement, and has made the oil change process much cleaner.
So I'd like to do this same thing to the Honda - but there is the metric issue. The drain plugs look to be in the range of 1/4" / 6mm +/-, but UI won't know that for certain until the oil needs to be dropped the first time.
I haven't checked the hardware stores yet - so can threading machines cut metric pitch threads? Are metric threaded pipe & fittings available? Can standard black pipe - say 1/4" ID be threaded to a metric size w/o causing the pipe issues - ie weak side walls?
Thanks
Jim