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Leo Lichtman Leo Lichtman is offline
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Default Drain plug removal


"Jim Wilkins" wrote: How about putting a big tray underneath and removing
the pan? Then you
could drill out the plug.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If I decided to remove the pan, I would start by drilling a hole in the plug
to let out the oil. Actually, what I would do is drill a hole in the pan to
drain it, and then weld it up later. Once the pan is off, if the plug is
hard to remove, you could drill successively larger holes in it, and then
finally clean up the threads with a tap.