You know, Jay, if you put the pass. side rear axle up on a stand, take the tire off, get a breaker bar (1/2" drive), appropriate size socket, six foot cheater pipe, have a buddy hold the socket to the plug (so's it doesn't slip off), and crank on that sucker I bet it will come right off. I've done this with a bar that long...a piece of metal fence pole...for some project I had a while back. I only recall whatever nut/bolt wouldn't come loose certainly did with the right leverage. And I tell you, that f@@ker was on there!

And definitely......use a six point. Those fill plugs are kinda soft on the edges.

(Come to think of it...I believe it WAS the fill plug!)

 

Get an impact socket and the longest breaker bar money can buy. Then get a friend to hold the end on the plug while you hike to the end of the handle.

I broke a regular socket taking a head bolt off an engine...

 

Might sound stupid, but just make sure you're trying to turn it the right way. It's easy to get the directions confused under there. I stripped my drain plug on the rear diff that way , but came out of it alive.

 

This is as just stupid, but here goes...

"Lefty-loosey...righty-tighty!"
I don't remember where I heard it, but one of those sayings you hear around the shops. It should probably die and best be forgotten, though. It justs sounds so silly to say it one almost feels kinda.....well, queer.

 

Thats what I use is a 24" Torque Wrench , have a cheap one that I abuse .

 

and what no one here seems to have mentioned....when you do change the fluid its a great idea to go to marlin or T-G or someone and order some of the allen head low profile plugs to replace the stock ones....you'll never have this issue again.

 

Yeah, I was using a 24" breaker bar, 1/2" drive, non-impact socket. I knew those head bolts were torqued way down, so I just started with that. I started twisting and all of a sudden "CRACK!" I was like "oh no! I broke the head bolt off!!! NOOOO!" But then I looked and I had split the socket on the side. It was a Craftsman socket, bought in the 1980s, took it to Sears (since they have lifetime warranties) and they gave me a new one! So I nabbed an impact socket while I was there and took the rest of the head bolts off with an impact socket.

 

I was actually slipping with a 6 point socket, I put on a 12 point and the plug came right off

 

I guess its time for more tools! Damn, this job is turning into a damn money pit for buyin more tools!

well..on the other hand... who dosnt like new tools?

 

Yeah the tools I hate to buy are the ones that you only use once or twice in a lifetime hehe , and usually the high dollar specialty tools you only use once because once you have it you never need it again

 

If you use your torque wrench as a breaker bar (to remove very stubborn bolts), I hope you don't turn around and try to use it as a torque wrench again, because it's calibration is probably way off now.

 

just use penitradin fluid and use the biggest wrench u got and if the doesnt work put a big as* pipe on the end of the wrench and give it hell just becarefull not to strip it that what i did to mine

 

and it came out fine

 

Hence the description ( a cheap one I abuse ) , no I have a nice one that is regularly calibrated for torqueing