[6pack] Removing gearbox fill plug

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John;

Has he tried using a shot or two of PB Blaster on it and letting it sit overnight?

Dave

---- John VanNorman <jsvannorman at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Question for the group.  My father made the classic mistake of
> draining his 6's transmission fluid in the gearbox before removing the
> fill plug, and of course he is now having problems removing the fill
> plug.  Here are the highlights of his efforts:
> 
> 1) He tried to remove the fill plug with a regular wrench with no
> success (it wouldn't budge)
> 
> 2)  He bought the special wrench from The Roadster Factory for the
> plug, but when he pulled hard on it using a piece of pipe on it as a
> "cheater bar", it just rounded off the square edges of the plug and
> distorted the corners in the square opening on the wrench.
> 
> 3)   A Gator Grip socket didn't hold at all.
> 
> 4)  He tried the one of the sockets you use for extracting stripped
> nuts (the type that digs into the nut), but it just rounded the edges
> of the plug a bit more and then slipped.
> 
> 5)  He then cut a deep groove in the head of the plug with a Dermal
> Tool, and tried to "unscrew" the plug with a screwdriver socket on a
> ratchet.  The socket fits into the groove fairly well, but slips out
> when I try to turn the ratchet with some force.
> 
> So, he is looking for fresh ideas.  His last resort is drilling it
> out, but he is afraid of metal shavings getting into the gearbox.  Any
> suggestions or tips?
> 
> John V
> 1974 1/2 TR6
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