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Old Oct 6, 2004 | 07:20 PM
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Stuck Drain Plug

dang tranny drain plug is stuck, the moinkeys that put my clutch in (cause i didnt have time to) used the impact to put it in and now i cant get it back out and ended up boogering it up trying to get it out with my impact, need to change fluid and got most of it out through the pto cover. last time someone else will work on my truck......and they wont take responseability for screwing it up...
 
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Old Oct 6, 2004 | 07:52 PM
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gonna try one of thoose horizontal bolts that holds that back section of the tranny see if the rest of it will come out of one of thoose, or go borrow a 1" impact, just worried about if the 1" trys to twist the whole dang tranny out with it
 
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Old Oct 6, 2004 | 10:26 PM
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What are you driving? My drain plugs on my '99 are aluminum. It would be a simple task to drill out the center and tap a NPT thread and put a plug in the center of the drain plug. Yes it would take twice as long to drain the thing, but it WILL drain.
 
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