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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: Rmachines on 11 April 2010, 15:05
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Hi, my sump plug is stuck! I have just had some serious force on it with a hell of a lever bar, and it just will NOT shift!! Its starting to round off now! :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:
Any one had this problem before? I cant get my manky oil out :angry:
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I wonder if its been cross threaded when the oil was changed the last time. Try a good set of stillsons on it and see if that grips it and undoes it. If not then you may have to get it drilled out.
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Weld a bigger nut on it, if it is crossthreaded then you going to need to sort the threads.
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mine was a right thingy!!!
I'm glad I've been weight trying for last 2/3 years. lol I had two foot bar and got on my back to pressed it up. It took as much force to bench 120kg! :laugh:
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i drove mine to kwik fit and had it up on the ramp. got a mahoosive torque wrench on and it finally came off.
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^ Shouldn't undo things with a torque wrench.
You can try Irwin/Snap-On nut extractors, they work well but you need to hammer them on and obviously you can't go mad on a sump!
I'd try and to as Wayne suggested and weld on a bigger nut. :)
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^ Shouldn't undo things with a torque wrench.
You can try Irwin/Snap-On nut extractors, they work well but you need to hammer them on and obviously you can't go mad on a sump!
I'd try and to as Wayne suggested and weld on a bigger nut. :)
i don't care it wasn't my torque wrench :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Ah ok i had a 4ft breaker bar on it :grin:
I have a set of snapon extractors at work, i will try my impact gun first, of not, sump off jobby!
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i had the same problem mate about 6months ago sump nut would just not let go :angry:
i heated the nut up until red hot with map gas (which took a long time) then hammered a 14mm socket over it, waited until it cooled then a nice long bar and it came out easy :smiley:
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REALLY.
i have never ever had a tight sump plug. if its ever tight, its usually im trying to undo it the wrong way...
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lol! I service hondas all day at work and also never get tight sump plugs... one whack with my spanner and they are off! But nothings that easy on my drive way :grin:
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lol have you got it sorted yet....done my oil this weekend....was fine until....hmmmmm mfi moment...of hell forgot the blooming washer!!!! eneded up lying under car thumb in the hole not to loose too much oil!!!
oil change + hangover = fail!
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HA! unlucky mind you the times i have put oil in without the sump plug in you would think i would learn by now, left the filter off a car once and started it, made a nice little water fall of oil... Oil fall? hm, anyway nah i havnt got it out yet will bring home my extractors, and impact gun this week and give it a go!