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Old 10-Mar-2011, 03:51 PM (910)
Hollow Road Rider Hollow Road Rider is offline
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Default Why do we want magnetic drain plugs?

Seriously, that may seem like a stupid question here, but is the point of the magnet to keep any metal fragments down in the sump so they won't be pumped around? It seems to me that it would all come out at each oil change right?
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