At 10:15 PM 2/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>     I changed the tranny oil in my 85 last weekend, and made a bit of a
>discovery:
>
>     Lo and Behold!  There was the answer:  A head nut!  It is the right
>size hex, deep enough that I could get it into each of the plugs while
>turning with a 17mm combo wench, and shallow enough to not bump into the
>exhaust pipe or interfere with the shift rod.
>
VW Lug bolts (male) also work - just thread on two nuts and tighten against
each other; insert head in hex bolt, wrench on the nuts.

Austin