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Team,
I have tried countless options to get the nuts of BOTH my rear and front diffs with no success. I have just basically rounded the front diff nut.
I have come to the point where I should just give in and hand it over to a mechanic to get the b@stard.
Any thoughts?

............and your options are????????

If as stated you have tried everything you know to the point of destructon of the nut....................

have u tryed banging a smaller sized socket onto it?

weld a bit of flat bar to the nut if accessable

Hoonz wrote:weld a bit of flat bar to the nut if accessable

I'm guessing it is the drive flange retaining nut on the pinion = difficult/impossible to get to...

i dont know the nut your talking about but if can you get to it with a grinder grind one edge down as far as possible and hit it with a cold chisel

i think its the drain plug your on about?

if so mate just drill a hole 12-14mm and tap the hole and use a new bolt in the existing one you rounded

im going to do this with the landcruiser

matthewK wrote:i think its the drain plug your on about?

if so mate just drill a hole 12-14mm and tap the hole and use a new bolt in the existing one you rounded

im going to do this with the landcruiser

THAT IS GENIOUS!!!!

BTW, its both the drain and fill plug. Thanks Matt

Badass Bundy wrote:

matthewK wrote:i think its the drain plug your on about?

if so mate just drill a hole 12-14mm and tap the hole and use a new bolt in the existing one you rounded

im going to do this with the landcruiser

THAT IS GENIOUS!!!!

BTW, its both the drain and fill plug. Thanks Matt

great idea hey what about the magnet on the end................

giantracing wrote:

Badass Bundy wrote:

matthewK wrote:i think its the drain plug your on about?

if so mate just drill a hole 12-14mm and tap the hole and use a new bolt in the existing one you rounded

im going to do this with the landcruiser

THAT IS GENIOUS!!!!

BTW, its both the drain and fill plug. Thanks Matt

great idea hey what about the magnet on the end................

post up some pics of what youve ended up with sofar

Ice wrote:post up some pics of what youve ended up with sofar

... for our amusement

chimpboy wrote:

Ice wrote:post up some pics of what youve ended up with sofar

... for our amusement

wondering if he was undoing the drain or doing up, with it being backwards under th car

lefty loosey
righty tighty

by drill/tap & add new to bolt to the existing drain plug you might be lowering the clearence, have seen this done B4, & have also seen the new modified drain plug ripped out of the rig over rocks,only to be found when that loud clunking / banging noise of the diff centre disintergrating starts to happen.. just weld a nuw nut to the existing one & try again, then replace it & weld on a protector ring to go around it ( cut the ring from thick pipe )

X2 - Piglet is spot on.

Happens with sierras all the time, not helped by the fact they use a 3/8" square drive plug that isn't deep enough to fully engage.

Put a picture up.

X3 with piglets idea, run a tap/die up into the thread to clean it up afterwards and put in a new plug so you dont have issue in the future.

do it once do it properly.

chimpboy wrote:

Ice wrote:post up some pics of what youve ended up with sofar

... for our amusement

nah for a solution, bit hard without seeing it in person, piccies the next best thing

Give them a good hard crack with a hammer then put single hex socket on them. Or after good hard crack, nail them with cold chisel in the undo direction.

jaztaz wrote:Give them a good hard crack with a hammer then put single hex socket on them. Or after good hard crack, nail them with cold chisel in the undo direction.

Did you by chance use a multi-position socket?
As said above smack the bottom of it with a hammer as this might break the rust on the thread and use a impact socket and a ratchet/breaker bar to undo....

The impact socket has the bigger flats on it and there is less chance of stripping the edges off the nuts.

otherwise weld a nut to it and use that to undo it....

Brad

Same thing happened to my hilux on the transfercase and gear box. welded a nut to it and it works a treat. if you get it off buy a new one from east coast or some thing and they have more meat on them, so your less likely to strip it.
good luck

I had the same thing happen to me on the weekend but I was trying to remove the bash plate on the patrol.

After I rounded the nut I just took to it with a wood chisel until it dug its groove and started to turn it, they I got out the multi grips and got it out.

Cheers
Paul

mate get an impact driver put an adator to suit be it 3/8th, 1/2 or 3/4 or inpact socket, clean it up best you can, get a large purswasion stick and give it a wallop... if that doesnt work get a chissle and perswasion stick and give it a wallop smacking it in the way to undoo it.

NOTE: lots of rust off over hours, even days if you have to. you will get it