Tom,

Be sparing with the heat on aluminum?

This was a massive understatement---!!

What a disaster to have the area around the plug go "PLOOP"---in your
lap---:>)

It for sure doesn't take much---

Glad you got them out OK---

Later,

Terry

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Subject: How to remove transmission plugs?...problem solved

Thanks to Daryl, Todd, Terry, Ed, Rick, and "Whiskey" for suggestions.
With the transmission out of the vehicle, I removed the plugs by
application, three times, of 10-seconds of propane torch flame to
aluminum areas around the steel plugs, and by the rather easy loosenings
of the plugs with a short, appxroximately 2", - 17 MM, transmission
"male" tool on a socket wrench.
Caveats: be very sparing of the flame on the aluminum. It heats very
quickly.
Tom Hanlon
Palm Springs, CA
84 Westfalia