[V8] [urq] Liquid penetrant test - 50/50 mix of ATF and Acetone beats Kroil etc.
bblake1055 at aol.com
bblake1055 at aol.com
Fri Apr 27 16:46:21 EDT 2007
With all this "Audi Frozen bolt talk" My 1984 911 was starting to feel left out.
I went to change the transmission oil on my 911 with 62,000 miles on it and am having nothing but problems.
I purchased this so-called special oil (Swepco 201) at a tune of $47.00 a gallon, bought a nice 1/2 inch drive 17mm hex socket and set aside a hour to do the job. WRONG!!!!
Took me a half hour to find the drain plug which was buried in caked in dirt. All the books said make sure you do the "Fill" plug first just in case you drain the oil and then can't get the "Fill" plug out.
The fill plug came out with no problem but the "drain" plug is totally stripped and after an hour of playing with it is now flush with the casing. (No allen head is even left on the plug)
My question is: Is it worth drilling and trying to get it out with an ez-out or should I just give up and suction out the old oil from the "fill" plug and re-fill it. I'm afraid the suction method is not going to get the sludge out.
I've owned the car for 18 years and have never changed the trans oil!!
Any BTDT would be appreciated
Thanks,
Bob Blake
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-----Original Message-----
From: ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
To: jitsu303 at yahoo.com
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Sent: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [V8] [urq] Liquid penetrant test - 50/50 mix of ATF and Acetone beats Kroil etc.
Ha! Yeah, those exhaust studs can be a real pain. An interesting
how-to and tips are here:
http://www.dimebank.com/tech/BrokenBolt.html
Ingo
On Apr 27, 2007, at 2:40 PM, bob terwilliger wrote:
>
>
> Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
> >The one thing that "never" works are ez-outs!
>
> --
> Huw Powell
>
> http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi
>
> http://www.humanthoughts.org/
>
> They ALWAYS break and are way harder than any drill bit I have so
> they are next to impossible to drill out. I don't know how many
> times it happened before I learned my lesson.
>
> John
>
>
> Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
> Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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