fortylove

Anyone have a picture of a purchased tool to remove the 17mm fill plug on a nv5600? I tried a home made nut & bolt tool but the plug is soooo tight a 2ft cheater bar wont budge it. Specs for this plug is 22 ft/lbs. No way,they must not have a torque wrench at the mexican Dodge factory. I think with a better tool I can get a 4ft cheater bar on it. I tried buying a 17mm tool from Autozone but they did'nt know what I was talking about. Thanks

JohnnyH

Try sears hardware.

Wild Ram

I know what you mean forty40, I went to Kragens and they wanted to give me a 17mm socket. They said go to Sears.

Jeff in TD

I picked up a 1/2" drive one at the local auto parts place...

Jerry R

I dug around and found a chisle that was 17 mm or close it it and stuck it in the hole.
The I put a 17mm wrench on it and turned it. Ain't that the way you are supposed to do it?

TXTad

I just got one of these:

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....re&dir=catalog

I generally try to get the right tool for the job when working on my CTD.

Tad

fortylove

Thanx Texas Tad $30 bucks seems a bit steep but it looks like it will get the job done. I guess thats all that counts.

SpokaneRam

You might also try any VW shop.... The Transaxels on Bugs and busses used a 17mm hex wrench for filling and checking the oil.
Might be a little cheaper.

Jerry R

TXTad,

I always try to use the right tool for the job also, but I'm not paying $30.00 for a tool to remove a $1.29 filler plug. The 17mm hex shaped chisle worked find and didn't bugger anything. Besides, after changing the 6-speed fluid at 15,000 miles I don't plan on changing it now for a couple of years and I can't think of any other piece of equipment around here that I could use a $30.00 17 mm allen socket on. Besides $30.00, that's like a case and a half of Michelob Ultra isn't it?

nickleinonen

... i made my own with a 10mm nut and bolt [both with 17mm head] and welded them together... it was tight, but it came out... it had thread sealent on it and it was a tapered thread also...

a 11/16" hex might work too... with a little grinding... [±0.018" bigger]

Jonesboro

nickleinonen has got it right! The head of a 10 mm bolt is a perfect fit. I just attached a few nuts and tightened them down, no welding was required. Worked just fine and cost nothing since I had the bolt and nuts on hand.

As to the original post in this thread, if you couldn't budge the drain plug using a 2 foot lever arm then you must have some other type of problem or you are turning in the wrong direction. My make-shift tool had no problem turning the plug using a normal size wrench.

fortylove

Attempted to loosen it counter clockwise. If its a left hand thread I got it real tight.

fortylove

I tried the 10mm bolt & nut deal. Even drilled bolt for a cotter pin, used a lock washer & still the nuts sheared the cotter pin. Guess Ill have to take it to a DC garage. When they loosen it Ill change fluid myself.

JKE

errr....buy the allen wrench then cheat on it with a large boxed-end wrench....does anyone think they may need a 17mm allen wrench in the future for something else?

I am pretty young so, I think I may need it down the road ...and it was cheap. $3 - $4 ..... - JKE

Nothing wrong with improvising. It just gets under my skin if I do not have the proper equipment...I'd go mad without the right tools ...

TXTad

Yeah, $30 wasn't cheap, but it would probably be accurate to say that buying tools is as much of a hobby with me as using them. If you got something that works and doesn't bugger things up, that's good enough. I didn't have anything and I figured $30 to just be done with it was fine. The plug is only a $1.50 part (well, probably more like $10 through DCX), but a boogered up one that I can't get off would be worth a whole heck of a lot more than $30 worth of aggravation.

Tad