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Re: Question about timing hole plug on the tranny...



actually, you'll probably want to reinstall it, because when i got my
rocco, it didn't have a plug. My engine leaked oil everywhere and after a
year, enough oil and crud got in there to make my clutch slip BAD. Keep it
covered people :)

At 09:01 PM 10/8/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/8/98 1:18:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>elias@tesla.wustl.edu writes:
>
><< I have decided to break down and buy a huge allen wrench to remove it.
> 
> Anybody know the size of the allen wrench for the plug?  >>
>Here's what I did about 3 weeks ago to remove it... for the first time ever.
>First, I etched a groove in it with a screwdriver on the furthest most
DRIVERS
>side of the plug. Then I took a LONG breaker bar that I use for other typical
>last resorts and put the edge of it right into that groove at an angle so I
>could push on it "counter clockwise".  I wacked away just a lil bit and
shazam
>it started unscrewing.  It was kinda barbaric but in retrospect it worked
>quite nicely.  I haven't put it back in and I don't intend to either.
I'll be
>the unlucky one that drops a socket in there but O well.. I'll deal.   HTH
>Dan May
>8716VScirocco  95.5Tacoma4x4
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