Try first tightening the plug, to just turn it very slightly (less than 1
degree). Sometimes you will hear a "crack" as it unseizes, then back out.
I've loosened many a stuck bolt this way, and did this on my tranny plug
last fall.  An old mechanic's trick.

alias Fred aka Bleu Schtroumpf

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas D. Hanlon [mailto:hanran@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: 12 mai, 2002 23:18
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: How to remove transmission fill plug?

Listees,

In working on the pristine, recently-rebuilt, 091/1 transmission which I
have just removed from my newly-aquired 84 GL parts van, I have had no
luck in attempts to loosen the fill plug. I have the correct 17 mm hex
wrenches in two configurations and a a breaker bar.

I've attempted the Bulley "200 taps method," and I've applied Liquid
Wrench.

Does anyone have a method to solve this problem?

Tom Hanlon
Palm Springs, CS
84 Westfalia