I use a gear wrench and a short piece cut from a regular 17mm Allen
wrench to remove the fill and drain plugs on the transmission.  That
combination works really well!

Mike

Tom Buese wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Jim Felder wrote:
>
>> I want to chime  in on behalf of the gear wrenches. They are a tool
>> that I thought was pretty useless until I needed one... I quickly
>> bought more. They speed up a lot of general nut and bolt removal and
>> replacement, and they can get to some things (speaking 2.1 and diesel
>> here) that you almost can't get any other way. I only bought the 10,
>> 12, and 13, and I used them all the time. I don't know if they 17 and
>> 19 would put up with the abuse they get, but I didn't think the
>> smaller wrenches would either--they do.
>
> The 17 mm is the 1st one I bought for getting at the engine/tranny
> nut behind the fan housing at the starter on an early AC.  I can't
> even do it w/o it at my advanced age of poor flexibilty, arthritic
> degeneracy.  I have both the Sears & the cheaper HF ones, & they both
> seem to work well when needed in those hard to reach, non socket
> accessible areas.
>
> Pax,
>
> Tom B.-always the right tool for the job, or the right mechanic?
>