[s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out

[Mark Strangways]

I have (in my truck) a 48" BFPW...
Is that what you refer to ?
Not sure I could actually get it on that little bolt head, but I'll bet you 
could spin the car with it.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Myers" <robert at s-cars.org>
To: "Mark Strangways" <Strangconst at rogers.com>; "Joe Pizzimenti" 
<joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>; "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
Cc: "Edward" <audi.ed at gmail.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out


>
> The BFPW works just fine to remove the stuck plug if you are replacing it 
> anyway.  No air compressor required.
>
> BFPW - LARGE pipe wrench.
>
> At 10:46 AM 1/23/2005, Mark Strangways wrote:
>
>>One should really use anti-seize on it as they are dissimilar metals...
>>
>>:-)
>>
>>Mark S
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Pizzimenti" 
>><joe.pizzimenti at gmail.com>
>>To: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
>>Cc: "Edward" <audi.ed at gmail.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
>>Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 10:36 AM
>>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out
>>
>>
>>>Or you could just use anti-seize.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:48:23 -0500, Fred Munro <munrof at sympatico.ca> 
>>>wrote:
>>>>Ummm, guys, if you use a torque wrench to tighten the drain plug to the
>>>>specified 22 ft-lb you will never have this problem. I had the tight 
>>>>drain
>>>>plug on my first oil change. I installed a new one and have torqued it 
>>>>ever
>>>>since. It has come loose using an ordinary ratchet handle at 8000 km
>>>>intervals for the past 150,000 km.
>>>>
>>>>Fred Munro
>>>>'94 S4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>>>>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of
>>>>calvinlc at earthlink.net
>>>>Sent: January 23, 2005 12:15 AM
>>>>To: Theodore Chen; Noah; Edward; s-car-list at audifans.com
>>>>Subject: RE: [s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out
>>>>
>>>>Hmmm....Mine wouldn't budge with 3 different impact wrenches I 
>>>>tried...one
>>>>was even a MAC tools job that put out ungodly amounts of torque.  The 
>>>>thing
>>>>just gets so tight because of the the aluminum pan.  Air chisel did it 
>>>>with
>>>>no problem, though.
>>>>--Calvin
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>>>>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Theodore Chen
>>>>Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 1:28 PM
>>>>To: Noah; Edward; s-car-list at audifans.com
>>>>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Help!! Evil drain plug will NOT come out
>>>>
>>>>--- Noah <noahgodwin at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Two words:
>>>> > Air Chisel.
>>>> >
>>>> > With all the soaking you've done already, I'd guess that the air 
>>>> > chisel
>>>> > would make short work of it. If you have air, and you don't have an 
>>>> > air
>>>> > chisel, you can get one for less than $20 at wal-mart.
>>>>
>>>>close, but the two words i'd suggest are "impact wrench".
>>>>
>>>>i had trouble with a stuck oil drain plug that rounded with a 6-point 
>>>>socket
>>>>and a breaker bar applied to it.  after it slipped the first time, i 
>>>>didn't
>>>>want to risk damaging the hex further, so i used an impact wrench on it.
>>>>i have an ingersoll-rand IR2131 and an air compressor.  if you don't own
>>>>these, you should seriously consider it.  you can also buy an electric
>>>>impact wrench from sears for $150, and it can remove just about any nut
>>>>or bolt on my cars.
>>>>
>>>>i vaguely recall having to unbolt a little tube to get a straight
>>>>shot at the oil drain plug.  i think this tube holds the alternator 
>>>>wire.
>>>>
>>>>if you already rounded it off, hammer a cheap socket onto it and use
>>>>the impact wrench.
>>>>
>>>>-teddy
>>>>
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