That's the bolt, but I find a suction pump does a better job of pulling out the old.

On 02-Jul-2014, at 22:11, Karl Wolz 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
> Sent from my electronic umbilicus
> 
>> 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