Typo. my bad. 24 indeed24mm. 25mm will round it off.
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Typo. my bad. 24 indeed24mm. 25mm will round it off.
Used a butane torch and hammered the socket on. ,So my question is once you have stripped the 24 mm head, what do you do?
Also it is a M18 1.50 bolt found one locally at oreilly in the Dorman help section.Used a butane torch and hammered the socket on. ,
Make sure the bolt gets really hot...it won’t glow but it should be untouchable. Just did this today maybe a smaller socket...
I got mine from CDan or Beno. I think they said they were standard on past Tacomas. I ordered the allen drain plugs only for both fill and drain holes, as the allen fill plugs do not have magnets (and I wanted all of them to have magnets). I have had them on my 60 since the 90's. I do not know the thread size/pitch, but the size is not special to land cruisers.
IIRC the correct allen wrench is 10 mm (I always keep a 10 mm allen in rig with a few other tools, and a couple more in the garage). I ordered a quantity of the special plug crush washers too (common to both plug types). The allen plugs have always been easy to get out.
I still want to know if anybody has mangled one of these allen head plugs on a rock. Sorry for the highjack.
This post is 6 years old, but I broke my thumb last month doing this. Wish I'd read this before!!I haven't had problems with the socket slipping but I now am very carful not to slam my hand into the axle when the plug breaks loose. Lost a fingernail in the process. Great way to start the front axle service.
Nope stripped further. Bastard doesn't want to give. Have a welding guy coming over tomorrow afternoon to weld a nut/bolt on it. Crazy tight. Bad design.
I am replacing all the drain and fill plugs with allen head plugs with magnets. While Toyota, they are not particularly beefy.
Has any body mangled an allen head drain plug on their diffs from dragging on rocks? IOW, are the allen head plugs likely more susceptible to significant rock damage compared to stock hex drain plugs?