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hey my rear diff plug (the one on the side where you refill your diff with oil). is it a right hand or left hand thread? i couldnt get it off with a breaker bar and hammer. ended up useing a hammer and cold chissel cuase i had the shits. now its completly fark the head of the bolt.

this is totaly my fark up. how can i get the plug out now??

Weld a short 12mm bolt onto it, give it some snot when welding, then jam a spanner on the bolt

Get a 6 sided socket. They grip the sides and not the corners and are much better for things like sump plugs.


Lefty loosey, righty tighty.

Emo wrote:Get a 6 sided socket. They grip the sides and not the corners and are much better for things like sump plugs.


Lefty loosey, righty tighty.

What Ive also done with my 6 sided socket is grind the end couple of millimeters off to get rid of the tapered section of the socket. It helps the socket to grip better as there is more surface area toucking the filler plug.

cozzav8 wrote:Weld a short 12mm bolt onto it, give it some snot when welding, then jam a spanner on the bolt

or weld a wheel nut to it.

Yep, don't use anything other than a single hex socket on them or you will likely round it off. Repco sell replacement filler plugs and drain plugs for them if you don't want Genuine Toyo.

You can also weld a short bit of flat bar to it and undo it with a shifter. I bought aftermarket plugs with a nice, chunky 16mm (AF) bolt head on it to replace the shallow ones on my cruiser.

It is a right hand thread.

ok thanks guys.

i'll have to invest on those sockets you guys are talkin about.

Don't do it up with a breaker bar?

You can'nt go wrong with the lefty loosey righty tighty rule boys!

-DE_LUX- wrote:You can'nt go wrong with the lefty loosey righty tighty rule boys!

Unless its a LH thread.

Before you ever try and undo the filler plug. Hit it hard with a hammer a couple of times right on the head of the plug. Like it was a nail and you were trying to drive it into the housing. After this its usually easy enough to undo with a 24mm spanner.

sloshy wrote:Don't do it up with a breaker bar?

yeah it wasnt me that did it up, it almost feels like it was done up wit a rattle gun. must of been the last onwer cuase i havnt done it for over a year since ownin the car its orite but apart from the oil being realy black, like realy black!

RUFF wrote:

-DE_LUX- wrote:You can'nt go wrong with the lefty loosey righty tighty rule boys!

Unless its a LH thread.

Before you ever try and undo the filler plug. Hit it hard with a hammer a couple of times right on the head of the plug. Like it was a nail and you were trying to drive it into the housing. After this its usually easy enough to undo with a 24mm spanner.

yeah i did that before i put the breaker bar on, hit it on the head a few times. ended stripin the bolt head then tryin with the hammer and cold chissel and it just farked it rite up

i agree with the 6 sided hex sockets as i just went through this with my transfer one(tonight) i didnt have any 6 sided ones, and i was the last person to do it up, but i didnt think it was that tight, well i ended up just welding another 24mm nut onto it,

i went to the wreckers a couple weeks back for a 2 of them plugs, he just gave them to me, free works for me. and since then have spent the better part of a grand, ha ha.

but knowing that they have chunkeyer ones i may go out and purchase 4 of them.

another trick (i have had heaps of dramas with these on the side of the track)

Use a little bit of antisieze on evert bolt and nut on your 4by... trust me you will appreciate it when things come undone instead of siezing...

but as said always use a singe hex socket.

EDIT: also if you go to toyota you can buy a toyota corona plug which has a larger head and you will not have any problems. Same size thread but bigger head. But this is no good for the drain and only good for the filler.

brad

Dane wrote: I bought aftermarket plugs with a nice, chunky 16mm (AF) bolt head on it to replace the shallow ones on my cruiser.

Where'd you pick these up from?

stampy4x4 wrote:

Dane wrote: I bought aftermarket plugs with a nice, chunky 16mm (AF) bolt head on it to replace the shallow ones on my cruiser.

Where'd you pick these up from?

They sound like exaxtly the same ones i used on my hilux.

Though i now use plugs from locktup4x4 which instead of having the flats for the socket are use a 'inhex' bit (or allen key) these work even better and are slim line. But you have to ensure you remove all the dirt out of them before you stick the allen key in them

brad

thanks for the replies guys, very usefull

Kingston_99 wrote:

sloshy wrote:Don't do it up with a breaker bar?

yeah it wasnt me that did it up, it almost feels like it was done up wit a rattle gun. must of been the last onwer cuase i havnt done it for over a year since ownin the car its orite but apart from the oil being realy black, like realy black!

RUFF wrote:

-DE_LUX- wrote:You can'nt go wrong with the lefty loosey righty tighty rule boys!

Unless its a LH thread.

Before you ever try and undo the filler plug. Hit it hard with a hammer a couple of times right on the head of the plug. Like it was a nail and you were trying to drive it into the housing. After this its usually easy enough to undo with a 24mm spanner.

yeah i did that before i put the breaker bar on, hit it on the head a few times. ended stripin the bolt head then tryin with the hammer and cold chissel and it just farked it rite up

After farking mine up with a chisel, I went out and bought a good single hex socket, tapped it onto the stuffed bolt and she came right off easy as.

If you are ever stuck for finding a new plug they are the same as gearbox filler plugs from any toyota
so if you have a heap of shit lying around (like me) then one is never far away