"Small jobs"
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Joined: May 2006
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From: North Vancouver BC
"Small jobs"
"I don't have any service records for my fairly-new-to-me '88. I know, I'll check the differential fluid level, and change the 4+3's manual tranny fluid!"
Monday
1 - Raise car
2 - Check axle fluid - full!
3 - Place 9/16 wrench on tranny fill plug. Plug is on there, no luck - chewing the plug edges with the wrench.
4 - Try all varieties of box wrenches, crescent wrenches, and hex sockets on drain plugs. Further damage to plug head, no progress.
5 - Build time machine.
6 - Travel back 25 years, strangle GM engineers for using square head plugs.
7 - Concede temporary defeat, leave car on jackstands for night.
Tuesday
1 - Call 17 different auto parts & tool stores, inquiring about 8-point sockets for removing square drain plugs. NOBODY has even heard of such a thing.
2 - Contemplate buying a set of 4-point or 8-point sockets from Snap-On for $984743392840492.
3 - Buy this bolt remover from Canadian Tire instead.
4 - Bolt remover actually grabs the plug nicely! Too bad I have no 1" wrench to turn the remover.
5 - Borrow 1" wrench from father-in-law.
6 - Finally get plugs out.
7 - Buy new plugs.
8 - Drain, refill, drive.
9 - Put on Willcox Rear Hatch Weatherstrip just to spite the Murphy's Law / DIY-curses.
-A.
Monday
1 - Raise car
2 - Check axle fluid - full!
3 - Place 9/16 wrench on tranny fill plug. Plug is on there, no luck - chewing the plug edges with the wrench.
4 - Try all varieties of box wrenches, crescent wrenches, and hex sockets on drain plugs. Further damage to plug head, no progress.
5 - Build time machine.
6 - Travel back 25 years, strangle GM engineers for using square head plugs.
7 - Concede temporary defeat, leave car on jackstands for night.
Tuesday
1 - Call 17 different auto parts & tool stores, inquiring about 8-point sockets for removing square drain plugs. NOBODY has even heard of such a thing.
2 - Contemplate buying a set of 4-point or 8-point sockets from Snap-On for $984743392840492.
3 - Buy this bolt remover from Canadian Tire instead.
4 - Bolt remover actually grabs the plug nicely! Too bad I have no 1" wrench to turn the remover.
5 - Borrow 1" wrench from father-in-law.
6 - Finally get plugs out.
7 - Buy new plugs.
8 - Drain, refill, drive.
9 - Put on Willcox Rear Hatch Weatherstrip just to spite the Murphy's Law / DIY-curses.
-A.
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Joined: May 2006
Posts: 702
Likes: 6
From: North Vancouver BC
OD definitely comin soon, Agent!
Heater core already toast and bypassed, so will do that when she's garaged in the winter.
The plugs had already been somewhat chewed up by the previous owner, which prevented me from getting a good 12-point fit on it...
Heater core already toast and bypassed, so will do that when she's garaged in the winter.
The plugs had already been somewhat chewed up by the previous owner, which prevented me from getting a good 12-point fit on it...
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