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Reply to Anders/Douglas
Posted by icepick (more from icepick) on Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:45:12
In Reply to: Re: Gorilla Tight Oil Drain Plug, Douglas, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:37:06
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Gentlemen - The impact wrench is one of the great inventions in tools - and its beauty is that is does have very short quick duration’s of pressure applied to the fastener of choice for removal. To get the drain plug off on a 9-5, hitting the wrench with your hand or a mallet can be very effective - but if you are not using a six-point socket your chance of rounding off the head is very high.
Likewise if you are using a six-point socket, frequently the socket works its way off the head each time you hit the wrench ultimately rounding off the top of the head when one of the whacks pops the wrench and socket off the head from an immediate unbalanced torque force. You can certainly use this method, but I have found that your chance of rounding off the head is minimized if you use a long wrench and a 1/2 inch 6-point socket applying constant pressure (e.g. letting the properties of physics (leverage) do the work for you). Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Icepick
'01 Aero
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Posts in this Thread:
- Gorilla Tight Oil Drain Plug, Boomer, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:22:50
- Re: Gorilla Tight Oil Drain Plug, patprice, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:42:36
- Replace the plug when you get it out, Joe
, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:52:41 - Re: Please try again - avoid the J-Team!! (+), Ed NC, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:14:04
- Re: Gorilla Tight Oil Drain Plug, Anders, Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:34:10
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