Rounded off drain plug

[ddbackhoe]

Got a buddy helping me out, going through our options.

Good bite, 8" wrench, need to go bigger. Couldn't find one of my bigger pipe wrenches at the time so trying again tomorrow.

Clever, are you going to use all of the methods mentioned to see where no more will be needed?

 

[Kando]

Clever, are you going to use all of the methods mentioned to see where no more will be needed?

Tomorrow is a bigger pipe wrench. Option after that will be either welding a nut over the plug, or cut the plug off flush and either using an extractor or drilling it out.

 

[airbiscuit]

This is better than watching a groundhog look for his shadow. SPRING IS HERE!

 

[Ford850]

This is better than watching a groundhog look for his shadow. SPRING IS HERE!

Drain Plug day. I can definitely see a shadow on the picture with the wrench, so 6 more weeks before that plug is out.

 

[airbiscuit]

 

[Tx Jim]

Kando
If you want to remove the plug you need to turn pipe wrench over. Remember this old saying "righty tighty-lefty loosey"

 

[LD1]

Got a buddy helping me out, going through our options.

Ground two flat sides on the plug to get a good bite surface.

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Good bite, 8" wrench, need to go bigger. Couldn't find one of my bigger pipe wrenches at the time so trying again tomorrow.

Lower jaw was the weak link on the one and only ridgid pipewrench I broke as well. Played h3ll trying to get it warrantied.

 

[LD1]

Kando
If you want to remove the plug you need to turn pipe wrench over. Remember this old saying "righty tighty-lefty loosey"

I didnt take the picture as any indication of how it was being used. Rather just to illustrate he broke the lower jaw

 

[SPYDERLK]

Got a buddy helping me out, going through our options.

Ground two flat sides on the plug to get a good bite surface.

View attachment 599641

Good bite, 8" wrench, need to go bigger. Couldn't find one of my bigger pipe wrenches at the time so trying again tomorrow.

The depth of the flats is bound to be short in relation to jaw width. There will be some tendency to distort the flats and cause the jaws to cam outward as high force is applied. For best possible results you should devise a hard/rigid restraint to force the jaws to be fully seated on the flats and to prevent the jaws from moving outward on the flats even the slightest amount as the serrations dig in. . . . As soon as the plug begins to turn outward you must relax the restraint a bit. And then within ~ a 1/4 turn it will become totally unneeded.​

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Wondering where this thread was. My oil drain plug is starting to round off, i might need some of these suggestions...

 

[fried1765]

Wondering where this thread was. My oil drain plug is starting to round off, i might need some of these suggestions...

I am going to store this entire thread!
Who knows when I might need to refer to this information in the future?
After all: I do have one tractor that is already 68 years old, so possibly in the next 30 years I might need this reference material.
In 30 years though, I'll be 108 and likely won't remember WHERE I stored it.

 

[goeduck]

Kando
If you want to remove the plug you need to turn pipe wrench over. Remember this old saying "righty tighty-lefty loosey"

Details, details. When I am laying on my back I get that I mixed up too. I pretend that I am holding a pickle jar upside down and trying to open the lid to get the direction correct

 

[Kando]

Kando
If you want to remove the plug you need to turn pipe wrench over. Remember this old saying "righty tighty-lefty loosey"

Certain i'm turning in the right direction. Same direction as the other 3 loosen. Wrong direction wasn't what broke it.

 

[goeduck]

Certain i'm turning in the right direction. Same direction as the other 3 loosen. Wrong direction wasn't what broke it.

It broke?

 

[airbiscuit]

That drain plug broke the pipe wrench! it is a bad muthu#$%

Kando is a complicated man - Just like Shaft.

 

[SPYDERLK]

Wondering where this thread was. My oil drain plug is starting to round off, i might need some of these suggestions...

Getting a new drainplug hasnt occurred to you?

 

[goeduck]

Getting a new drainplug hasnt occurred to you?

Why, when he could start a new thread .... Rounded off Drain Plug II

 

[Kando]

Why, when he could start a new thread .... Rounded off Drain Plug II

I add my vote for RODP II: The Plugging

 

[airbiscuit]

Why, when he could start a new thread .... Rounded off Drain Plug II

We're going to need something when Kando gets that bad boy out.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

I still vote for welding a new heavy pattern hex nut on it. If the stuck plug is malleable iron pipe plug he'll have to bronze weld it on. Low and behold, the heat from welding and it is now only finger tight.

Ron