If you're not familiar with my few previous posts, I got my 80 in December and I've been lurking on this great site and baselining my rig since. It's not my daily driver but definitely my Costco and Home Depot mobile on the weekends right now. Looking to get it ready for some tame wheeling within the year.
I'm working on flushing the transfer case right now. I don't know when the last time the PO checked or filled it. The fill plug/bolt is a bit rounded. I've sprayed the fill plug a few times with PB Blaster. After, I've tried using a 24mm socket to remove it, but can't seem to get enough coverage on the head to turn it. I used a 24mm wrench to try and turn it and it seems to want to round it even more.
I ordered a 24mm rounded bolt remover, the kind that bite into the head, but I'm wondering if that might destroy the bolt and/or damage the transfer case if the socket gets past the rounded bolt head.
Has anybody tried one of these bolt extractors on the transfer case fill plug? Any luck? As for the other solutions to this problem, what's the order of preference? Heat first, then hammer and chisel, then lastly trying to weld a nut on there?
Thanks for the help guys!
Ps. I ordered the allen wrench type bolts from Witsend to replace when this saga is complete.
I'm working on flushing the transfer case right now. I don't know when the last time the PO checked or filled it. The fill plug/bolt is a bit rounded. I've sprayed the fill plug a few times with PB Blaster. After, I've tried using a 24mm socket to remove it, but can't seem to get enough coverage on the head to turn it. I used a 24mm wrench to try and turn it and it seems to want to round it even more.
I ordered a 24mm rounded bolt remover, the kind that bite into the head, but I'm wondering if that might destroy the bolt and/or damage the transfer case if the socket gets past the rounded bolt head.
Has anybody tried one of these bolt extractors on the transfer case fill plug? Any luck? As for the other solutions to this problem, what's the order of preference? Heat first, then hammer and chisel, then lastly trying to weld a nut on there?
Thanks for the help guys!
Ps. I ordered the allen wrench type bolts from Witsend to replace when this saga is complete.