ZenRXSeven

The damn coolant drain plug is COMPLETELY stripped. It looks like someone took a freaking drill bit to it. How the crap am I supposed to get that fugger out? My car is still on winter coolant mix and I really need to flush and refill it. What can I do? I need help...

P.S. This is really pissing me off.

Rxmfn7

iTrader: (4)

Heat up the end of a flathead screwdriver with a propane torch or a lighter, and then press it into the plastic plug. It should melt its own little notch, then wait a few seconds ro a minute until it cools, and try to unscrew. That should work.

dr0x

I thought he was talking about the drain plug on the motor.... heheh :P:

Cheers!

JB weld some sort of screw driver bit on and then take vise grips to it.

yearrgh

Or buy an extracor set. I think they're called EZ outs, or something like that. It worked for me.

ZenRXSeven

Well, I tried what Rxmfn7 suggested, but it didn't work. Probably because the only thing I had to heat up the screwdriver, other than matches, was a dinky little lighter. However, I did wind up getting that thing out by sawing across the diameter of the entire plug and it's thread to make a new driver hole and using a huge *** flathead to unscrew it. Scared me half to hell when it finally popped out and it slipped into my drain pan! Well, it was a pain to fish it out because I had to empty the entire pan into a bucket to find it, and then empty the bucket back in the drain pan again. But, I replaced the drain plug on the radiator with the bleeder plug on the top, which was very much unstripped, and put the battered and mangled drain plug in as the bleeder plug, so I don't have to muck about under the car to wrestle that thing out again. Whooo.... what an ordeal just to change the coolant! Oh well. It was very much worth it as both my car and I are very much happier now.

Liquid Anarchy

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Why the hell didn't you just take the lower radiator hose off? Jesus, this isn't rocket science.

Jaared

umm lower radiator hose?? The flux capacitor is in the way!

its always easier to remove the car from the engine.. than the engine from the car.

bingoboy