I have a 1.5" piece of the allen wrench that goes in the plug hole and the
other end takes a socket- this socket is then attached to either a impact
wrench or breaker bar.  Came off every time this way.
Cheers
Matthew

Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jay L Snyder wrote:

> I was never able to remove the drain plug on either of my Vanagons.  I used
> a pump and sucked it out the fill hole.  Is there a special tool or trick
> to getting the drain plug out?
>
>                                                              Jay
>