Removing stuck sump plug.

[timbra_88]

Trust me on this one

Take it off with a rattle gun, trust me, it will work. All u need it.
1. Air compressor
2. Rattle gun
3. Exact fitting socket

Just stick her on and rattle away, it will come str8 out...

 

[Emackulation]

use 2 ring spanners, one to fit nicely over the nut then get another for leaverage. will come off, the long the leaverage u have the easier, just dont thread the nut. And why do ppl tighten sump plugs so tight, ****in reatrds.

 

[VTSSDUDE]

Just get a really good ring spanner, and put brute force into it, or put some load on the spanner in the anti-clockwise. Then bash it with a hammer.
But breaker bar is sounding good for your situation.

 

[mouce]

sump plugs that tight! dry ice is one i shall have to remember. where do you purchase from?

That dry-ice trick is actually a really old school computer geek trick. In the olden days it wasn't uncommon for computer hard drives to just seize up. Putting them in the freezer overnight caused some components to shrink more than others, thus freeing the seized mechanism.

When they were defusing bombs in WWII they used cryoliquids, normally liquid oxygen, to 'freeze' the detonator, which made it shrink so they could remove it without the use of excessive force.

Same theory here, as for where to get the Dry-Ice from. A lot of those 'diet' companies who deliever frozen meals pack them with dry-ice to keep them frozen, if you know anyone who gets meals that way, ask them for it. Failing that, I guess places like BOC might stock it, if not they should be able to tell you where to get it.

Liquid nitrogen would also be a good way to do it. Just make sure that you don't put too much force on the bolt until it's come back to normal temperature, the extreem cold can make the metal brittle until it heats up again.

Remember the idea is to use the cold to make it shrink then come back to normal size. So freeze it, then have a go about 10 minutes later. I don't want you snapping the head off the bolt.

 

[AndyVKSSA]

get a tourque wrench onto it and tap it around with a hammer if u cant push it around yaself

 

[defa]

just use a straight sided socket
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that shaped.. they don't usually slip as much. and as everyone else has said.. use a breaker bar..

 

[Don Sutton]

1] Use a punch which is the same or similar diameter to the plug.
2] Place it firmly against the flat face of the plug ie the axis of the plug and punch are inline.
3] Hit the end of the punch with a hammer.
4] use a six point spanner or socket to loosen.
5] Replace sump plug seal before refitting.

Do Not!!
1] Use heat as you would need to heat the sump without heating the plug and is unlikely to be successful given a sump full of oil.
2] Dry ice against the plug - how would you hold it and if your'e lying down underneath guess what it would do to your eye if you dropped it and thats where it landed.


Last resort measure.
Drill plug with a drill size suitable for a large 'ezy out' and remove remove using easy out then replace plug.
or
Carefully remove head of plug so that pressure is removed from the thread then tap around using a centre punch or chisel.
or
Remove sump and send to engineering shop to be drilled out.
Either will require a new plug.

 

[Uber_Matt]

Well i got it. I ended up putting the car up on ramps and attaching a handle from a hydraulic jack to the end of my breaker bar and then yanking on it. MY car is now sitting in the garage with a drain bucket under its sump as type this.

Thanks for the suggestions fellas, much appreciated.

 

[mouce]

1]
Do Not!!
1] Use heat as you would need to heat the sump without heating the plug and is unlikely to be successful given a sump full of oil.
2] Dry ice against the plug - how would you hold it and if your'e lying down underneath guess what it would do to your eye if you dropped it and thats where it landed.

1. You don't have to heat the sump, you can just heat the plug, while the plug will swell, the change in size of the plug while imperceptable to the eye should be enough to 'break' whatever is causing it to be seized.

2. Never heard of an icecream tub? And what idiot would lie directly under the icecream tub full of dry ice anyway? :hit: Common sense says that you lie out to the side so that you can watch the condensation 'fog' that forms from it. Seriously, have you ever played with dry ice? You can hold it in your bare hands if you're careful with it. I specialised in cryophysics at uni, you wanna talk low temperatures? I'm all yours.

 

[geta]

I specialised in cryophysics at uni, you wanna talk low temperatures? I'm all yours.

ooo ooo liquid nitrogen is fun to play with .. we used to use it to cool the SEM's... and snap freeze plants, ants,... and anything else pointless

-dave