I have been trying everything in the book to get the fill plug for my rear end out. I started with a standard 3/8 socket... Nothing... soaked in WD-40 for three days... nothing... heated up with map gas... nothing.... went out and bought 12" 3/8 breaker bar and put an 18" pipe on the end of that...stripped out the plug... bought the biggest easy out I could find, drilled a, 11/32" hole and tried that with the breaker bar and the pipe....nothing!!!!

This is the tightest plug I have ever seen and no I didn't put it in, its my new junk yard rear end. I do not have an acetylene torch.

Any new ideas??????

 

Run it by a tire shop, and have them hit it with an impact wrench...

 

nm

 

I could try bringing it in. That is just so degrading... lol

"nm" Does that mean not me?

I went back out to the garage and I am using a 13/32 easy out. I just broke the head off my breaker bar. Good thing it was a craftsman.

 

nm = not much


and, well there ain't much you can't do w/out torching it, or a impact wrench lol, buy another plug and weld a screw to that one sideways and try beating it with a hammer or something

 

nm = nevermind. Darned noobs....

 

if its too stripped then you will have a whole basket of mess on your hands. drilling means metal shavings in the third member..not good one bit....

 

My oil plug did the same thing. Here's the steps I took

1) Ordered a new one from Black Dragon
2) Clamped on a vice grip as tight as humanly possible
3) Have a strong friend over
4) Crank the s#!t out of it till it pops.

 

Acetylene torch + vice grips is the only way I've been able to get some of those plugs out. Since you don't have a torch, your best bet may be to take it in or borrow a torch set from a friend.

 

If you haven't destroyed the plug completely, weld a short 1/2" grade 8 bolt onto the plug. The heat from the welding should destroy the the bond between the threads, then hit with an impact.

 

No i haven't destroyed the plug at all. I have a perfectly centered 13/32" hole drilled in the center that I have been using the easy out in. I'm going to limp it 1/2 mile down the road to the Midas to see if a combination of a torch and an impact wrench on the easy out will get it out. I already have a plug to use from my original axle which came out with ease.

I dont think the few small metal shavings will hurt anything. Most of them came out of course. I could drain the oil but I think refilling through the 13/32" hole would be a bitch.

 

I left mine completely destroyed, let me know if everything works out.

I had a bad axle seal and knew it was empty, so I poured in a quart through one of the axles.

 

Acetylene is the winner! My buddy came over with his torch and it came out with ease!

 

glad you got it out!!! the part number for the new plug is 0259-26-041a

 

the drain plug is magnetic, so it will collect any shavings.

 

the blue wrench works very well, most of the time.