Any bright ideas ?

[cortexx]

On removing the fill plug on the gearbox on my R33 ?

breaker bar wont budge it , air gun wont break it .

Someone mentioned filling through the speedo hole - if i could find it with my limited patience this late at night ...

thoughts ?

[cschepp]

Paul step one, bring it down to my shop and we can throw it on the hoist. We can get a big bar that will attach to the ratchet and have enough torque to get this sucker loose. Let me know if you need any help

[cortexx]

That nice of you to offer Chris and i would do that .... if i hadn't already drained the oil lol

[GTR-guy]

My mechanic removed the gear stick and filled the transmission oil through there! Hope this helps!

[cortexx]

I already did this with 4 bottles of royal purply max gear only to still have an empty gearbox and an overful transfer case

Hope yours is not a GTR

My mechanic removed the gear stick and filled the transmission oil through there! Hope this helps!

[Silbee]

Leverage is your friend throw a bar over the end of your breaker bar and give her ****.

[Bossman]

Put a floor jack on the breaker bar and jack the bar up? Remember, it's counter clockwise to loosen! BTW how long did you run your air gun? I must have spent one minute if not two once to loosen a nut but it did finally come off.

[GTR-guy]

I already did this with 4 bottles of royal purply max gear only to still have an empty gearbox and an overful transfer case

Hope yours is not a GTR

Well it is a GTR. And haven't have any problems with the gearbox!
My mechanic friend is one of the top GTR specialist in Japan!
Anyways, the mission oil going in the transfer case sound like a different problem to me! I hope it gets sorted out!

[cschepp]

Thats a good trick there bossman. I would imagine that would work!

[Bruizer]

My mechanic removed the gear stick and filled the transmission oil through there! Hope this helps!

You're mechanic buddy did that to fill the transfer case, so either you misunderstood him, thinking he said gearbox oil, or he's not what you say he is



Best thing to always do is to open the fill plug first, always, so if something is stuck or jammed, you can always get around to a place that is set up better.

This happened to me with my front diff cover (fill hole first of course) and using a longer break bar was starting to strip the socket hole, so I beat the wrench into the plug, with a maul hard enough to almost break it, then it turned out.

[jrhdohc]

My mechanic friend is one of the top GTR specialist in Japan!...

Who ?

[Smilez]

did you try heating up the metal AROUND the fill plug? it worked for me on my front diff, didn't think it was ever going to come out, but a lil heat from the blowtorch around the fill plug and it was much easier to break loose.

[cortexx]

I have some liquid oxygen from a cryo setup at work im going to subject the plug to , it'll shrink enough to remove easily hopefully.

should be an entertaining evening in my workshop tonight

Makes me wonder how the hell the mechanic at rightdrive managed to get it out when they did the fluids before i picked it up , only been 5000k since last years delivery. ALthough it is covered in what looks like red threadlock lol. wouldnt like to armwrestle that guy !

[caliber676]

threadlock will be you enemy getting that bolt out. I would stay away from cooling the plug, heating it up will loosen up the threadlock and get your impact on that. It was most likely put on with an impact, your best bet is an impact unless your stripping the plug.

[GTR-guy]

Who ?

Dai Nakane from Nakane Racing Design.