Posted by NYOlivers on April 01, 2019 at 18:14:22 from (98.3.50.125):
Does anyone have any tips or tricks to remove a steel square drive 3/8" pipe plug out of a Aluminum Oil pan? I am working on one of my tractors and I was going to drain the engine oil and I could not get the plug out. I have not serviced this tractor before and I do not even know if the pipe plug is the correct drain plug for it, I don't think it is. I started with box wrench, then a adjustable wrench, then tried 2 different square drive sockets because the plug started to get distorted and round off each time. I then tried to heat it but the aluminum removes the heat to fast. I even tried twist sockets that are supposed to remove rounded off bolts with my 3/8 impact. No movement at all just kept rounding off the flats on the plug. I can get a some what of a decent bite on it with a pipe wrench but I do not want to break the pan. I was thinking of maybe trying to weld a large nut over the plug and maybe the heat from welding it will help brake loose the rust around the threads. I have a lot of room around the plug and I think I could get it clean enough on all sides to get good penetration on the steel plug if I weld it. I guess I am worried about pulling out the threads on the aluminum. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance...
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