How To Remove Stripped Diff Drain Plug?

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Oct 25, 2006 | 04:53 PM

UVETTYA

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How To Remove Stripped Diff Drain Plug?

Anyone have experience removing the Diff drain plug when the socket head is rounded out? TIA.

Oct 25, 2006 | 05:36 PM

John Shiels

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Anyone have experience removing the Diff drain plug when the socket head is rounded out? TIA.

drill through it and use big easyout. Keep vacuum to suck drilling material from going in the diff. Just my guess on a solution. May be make flat plate 1/8" steel stock used like a big screw driver blade and tap it in on a diagonal then turn with a big adjustable.

Oct 25, 2006 | 05:44 PM

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Oct 25, 2006 | 05:51 PM

DaveP

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weld a piece of hex key-allen wrench to/in it, use socket on allen wrench to remove.

Oct 26, 2006 | 01:13 AM

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Sears sells a socket set that has a cutting helical edge on the inside to bite into a rounded bolt. Not sure what they are officially called. In the 'old" days you could use a file to create a slot in the head and use a large screwdriver to help turn it with a box wrench shoved onto the stripped head. Finally a little liquid wrench on the bolt might help loosen it since it sounds like it is "tight"