Can't Open Trans Drain

[RBBailey]

Is it strange that a 3 foot breaker bar doesn't give me enough torque to open the drain bolt on an R380?

I feel like I'm going to damage something if I'm pushing this hard.

 

[4RF RDS]

You won't damage it, keep trying.

 

[RBBailey]

I'm just surprised that a drain plug is so tight. I've never had this happen on a bolt of this type.


So I have used heat. And I have used oil. And I just had the end of the breaker bar placed on a jack and lifted up, but it still won't budge. I'd guess I'm putting something like 500-800 pounds of lift force on the end of the breaker bar.

 

[Napalm00]

Can you snap a pic of it? Something has the be going on. Maybe impact it out?

 

[RDavisinVA]

Are you turning it in the right direction?
If you are tightening it, then this is the exact result.
I often find the simple things give the most problems.

 

[RBBailey]

So I let it sit for half an hour with the jack holding the bar up under the truck. It just POPPED loose on its own while I was doing something else in the garage. Didn't even look like it had any locktite on it, and nothing seems broken, it closed up tight and doesn't leak now.

By the way, here's a shot of how I put the new fluid back in in only a few minutes with ease.

 

[RDavisinVA]

I'll bet it was tightened with an impact.
Tightening bolts reminds me of the idiots with the volume controls in a hotel or apartment building at 2:00AM... louder is better, just like tighter is better.
If the specs call for 25 PSI, then 100 PSI must be 4 times better, right?
HELL NO!

 

[rocky]

My only suggestion is that it will come out. But There is potential that it will be destroyed in the prov. Get a new one before removing the old.