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Subject:Re: oil drain AHU diesel
From:Mike Miller
Date:Wed, 2 Jul 2014 18:31:42 -0700

Bolt probably does� that but not when it's in so tight that the allen striped it out but couldn't move it.

Time for a new bolt, anyone got one, and someone who knows how to pull a striped allen bolt out for replacement.

darn.

Mike

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 6:11 PM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM> wrote:
 

Drivers side, horizontal bolt goes on perpendicular to the direction of travel (unless you can talk your diesel into a four wheel drift). 

The bolt doesn't pull all the way out, but opens a hole in the bottom of the pan adjacent to the bolt. 

Karl Wolz
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> On Jul 2, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET> wrote:
> 
> Hi there vanagaunts,
> 
> Went to change the oil for the first time on my diesel conversion, AHU.
> 
> Certainly not the standard oil drain plug anywhere to be seen. But a bolt with allen head in the side of the oil pan [I think it's the pan at least].
> 
> It appears to be a 5.5mm allen fit but man is it tight!
> 
> Is this the oil drain on an AHU, is this the right size, and how hard should it be to get it out? I'm looking at using a small pipe wrench, which seems to me to be a bolt that is Way to tight, or it's not the drain plug at all.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Mike