tool to remove tranny fill plug?
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From: New Jersey (whats it to ya??)
Here is a good DIY if you don't have a 3/8" Allen/Hex key to wrench on your tranny plug. (It's amazingly SIMPLE, and kick my *** for not thinking of it myself.)
Get a bolt with a 3/8" head, attach two (2) nuts on the bolt. These nuts will act as your jam-nuts when tightening/loosening the trans plug.
When tightening the plug:
1) Insert the bolt head into the Trans plug (where the Allen key would normally go),
2) Making sure the two nuts you screwed onto the bolt are tight up against each other, use the TOP NUT to tighten, turning bolt to the right. (Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey)
To loosen trans plug, reverse process, but...:
1) Wrench on the BOTTOM NUT to the left, being sure both "lock nuts" are snug against each other.
HOPE THIS TRICK HELPS.
NEAL
Get a bolt with a 3/8" head, attach two (2) nuts on the bolt. These nuts will act as your jam-nuts when tightening/loosening the trans plug.
When tightening the plug:
1) Insert the bolt head into the Trans plug (where the Allen key would normally go),
2) Making sure the two nuts you screwed onto the bolt are tight up against each other, use the TOP NUT to tighten, turning bolt to the right. (Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey)
To loosen trans plug, reverse process, but...:
1) Wrench on the BOTTOM NUT to the left, being sure both "lock nuts" are snug against each other.
HOPE THIS TRICK HELPS.
NEAL
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I wouldn't even bother using a torque wrench just snug it up good.
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From: New Jersey (whats it to ya??)
"That's an OK trick if you're stuck somewhere on the road I suppose, but any place that sells bolts will also sell Allen wrenches. Just get the wrench"
You'd think so...but from personal experience I've run into (at all my local stores) the problem of stores only offering popular size Allen keys. Hence this work-around.
TRUST ME, if I had the option of buying the required size Allen key at that moment, I would have purchased it. But when broken down on the side of the road, finding a fully stocked tool chest with every conceivable tool at your fingertips packed in someone's saddlebag is unlikely. But a bolt and two nuts is more likely. For instance, the bolts that attach your Choke/Enricher Bracket to the rockers can be cobbled together in a pinch. (Yeah, they'll work. Trust me.)
Safe Riding!
You'd think so...but from personal experience I've run into (at all my local stores) the problem of stores only offering popular size Allen keys. Hence this work-around.
TRUST ME, if I had the option of buying the required size Allen key at that moment, I would have purchased it. But when broken down on the side of the road, finding a fully stocked tool chest with every conceivable tool at your fingertips packed in someone's saddlebag is unlikely. But a bolt and two nuts is more likely. For instance, the bolts that attach your Choke/Enricher Bracket to the rockers can be cobbled together in a pinch. (Yeah, they'll work. Trust me.)
Safe Riding!
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