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Old Mar 27th, 2020, 08:27   #55
Clifford Pope
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Join Date: Dec 2001
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Originally Posted by CosmicBike View Post
no problem, nipped back up.
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Very wise.

I once had a drain plug that defied all efforts, and after breaking a socket extension bar and mangling the flats I put a 3' stillson wrench on the remains and it snapped the plug flush with casing. I was resigned to syphoning the oil with a thin tube but touched the remains of the plug and found it was now only finger-tight. Presumably the shock from snapping it had also broken the bond holding it.
If I hadn't happened to test it it would probably have vibrated out while driving.
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