Evangelos:
I had the same problem, I even tried rotating it with a cold chisel.
Eventually I used an air wrench, like the ones tire shops use on wheels
nuts, and found the square drive went someway into the taper in the filler
plug. I operated the air wrench trigger while pushing it's 1/2 in square
drive hard into the plug. The fact that the clutch on the air wrench was
banging like an impact driver seemed to provide hundreds of short term high
torque taps to the plug and it just started to move. It worked for me
anyway.
If you don't have an air wrench maybe your friendly tire shop would try the
same technique on a slow business day.
Rick
----- Original Message -----
From: Evangelos G. Makris <egmakris@otenet.gr>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 5:10 PM
Subject: help: axle fill plug...
> Please give me ideas on how to remove this almost rounded (and widened)
> axle oil filler plug. It's not of the 3/8" hex variety, unfortunately.
> It's the old square type.
> I have the "proper" tool but it slips out. The 1/2" socket adaptor goes
> in halfway and, again, slips out. Whoever tightened this so much
> deserves, well, let's keep it nice.
>
> Evangelos
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