FuzzyLog1c

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Hey, I managed to slowly round off the oil drain plug on my CTS-V. I've got a new, stainless steel one in the mail, but in the meantime, I'm trying to brainstorm how to get the old one off. Best guess at the moment is trying to file down the edges to exactly 14mm and pray that I can get it close enough to get a secure wrench on it.

Thoughts?

vmapper

iTrader: (8)

rounded the oil bolt? tisk tisk..
Vice Grip pliers.. muscle the pliers on...done

jmargo

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Have a welder ? Tack a nut to it through the middle.

FuzzyLog1c

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That's probably what's going to have to happen. *sigh* I have this thing about over-torquing bolts. Really gotta stop doing that. I actually managed to shear off 4 of my 24 lug bolts and had to replace them all this summer. Even broke the shells off the stock lug nuts. Sears probably wonders how I keep snapping 3/8" drive hardware. Most of my stuff is now 1/2" drive as a result, but there are a few things that are better handled with 3/8" tools.

Btw, Dactari sheared one or two pieces of 1/2" drive hardware getting his LS2 pulley off. Now that takes some serious strength!

jrob56

iTrader: (39)

Holy **** dude, use the right size drive and all I can say is torque wrench all your **** from now on if you are hulking everything..

54inches

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Round wrench:

dangrus

Try a pipe wrench.

punishmentcycle

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So let me get this strait.. U can work on a car but can't figure out how to a stripped bolt out?!? Smh

Dmax/04V

Drill it and get a marine counter (counterclockwise) tap in the center of the bolt. Then get a marine counter bolt and crank left on it. Good Luck sir.

soulja

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I had the same issue on my wife's pacifica. This is what I used. They work perfectly!

FuzzyLog1c

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Of course I can. This particular one is really, really stuck. I've been eyeing a set of vice grips for a long time now, and I think I just found the excuse to buy one.

You know, in retrospect, I think I've bought nearly $1000 worth of hand tools to work on this car. Damn. I feel like a mechanical engineer version of Neo in the Matrix when he says, "Guns. Lots of guns" except I fantasize about moving up from my Milwaukee M18 to a V28 and buying a complete set of every short and deep socket on the planet.

punishmentcycle

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Just use the vice grips and ur done

RADEoN

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Yep. Vice grips. The metal will crush, and you're free to turn. No need to make it harder than it needs to be.

DDTECH

Is there still a head on there? Both snap-on and matco make a bolt removal kit for either drilling out or going on a rounded head to give it some "bite".

AAIIIC

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Could you please post a larger version of that? I can't quite make out the crystal grain structure of the metal.

RADEoN

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hahahahahahahahahahahaha

3,648px × 2,736px

Vemon

why so much torque on everything? Thats not the way joints are designed. Every bolt is not TTY.

Stone17

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Get this

http://www.searsoutlet.com/10-pc-Dam...9&mode=buyUsed

54inches

iTrader: (4)

I certainly can; I have SEM photo of the grain structure.

DrSpeed

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http://www.qwikvalve.com/fumoto-f107n-valve.html

No more rounding. Use 1 finger to open drain valve.

Have it on my Superduty, Subaru, Lexus, and obviously the V. Never a drop spilled. I run a hose straight into a used oil container. Best part, you can change the oil hot without burning yourself.

Uh...there are petroleum based products sitting behind the nut.....