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Re: try unscrewing a bottom bolt 900 1993

posted by  someone claiming to be chris herbst on  Thu Nov 1 02:27 CST 2001 [RELATED]

Oops... I think I forgot to mention that I had already changed the oil.

So I rolled under the car and SURPRISE, there was no drain plug.

Anyone familiar with the movie "A Christmas Story"? From outside the shop, I think I sounded a lot like dad messing with the furnace while the mom & kids sat upstairs listening to him through the heat ducts.

Since I work on boats all the time, I have a nice brass Jabsco pump that I use for bizarre situations like that. A lot of boats don't even have crankcase oil drain plugs. The inlet hose for the pump is very thin for dipstick tubes, and I got just about all of the oil out of the diff. I was amazed, actually, by the amount. Typically sucking oil out does only a fair job at best. I thought of undoing the cover but I didn't want to mess with the gasket either.

Anyway, I did use the HD Shell GL-5 oil that I use in most axles.





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