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Removing a stripped drain plug...
Removing a stripped drain plug...
My new-to-me '85 R80 apparently had a previous owner who did not believe in torque wrenches. I'm going to completely rebuild the bike and am just in the tear down phase. All the drain plugs were over torque. Like way, way over. I got lucking with the transmission and final drive, but not the oil drain.
I actually have never had a plug do what this did before. It stripped out on the first go, with only mild force. At any rate, it's good and rounded out. I tried a hex extractor with no luck. Also tried heating the drain pan a bit around the plug, also with no luck. Before I go with the drill and easy-out approach, I thought I might check here to see if any of you have any tricks to share.
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The larger Allen wrench was close to what I found success with.
I wound up using a Torx bit that was barely able to bottom out into the hole and get it broken loose. I wish I was measuring the torque on this as it was rocking the whole lift quite a bit. I would have been happy with that thing holding the handle bars as tight as it was. Bonus was that I did not have to sacrifice the bit as I feared I might.
On to the rest of the teardown...