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Re: Heat padding, Headers, Diffs, and Drums for Midget 1500

To: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Heat padding, Headers, Diffs, and Drums for Midget 1500
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 21:41:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Paul Hunt wrote:

> >What sort of tool do I need to open the differential oil plugs? It
> >appears to be a tapered square hole, but is it really tapered or is
> >mine just rusted and crud-infested? Where can I get a tool to
> >open it up?
>
> It is tapered, there is a tool, but I use a 1/2" socket drive on my
> B's.  Light hand pressure is all that is required (on mine) to stop
> the square drive slipping out of the hole.

That won't work on a Midget.  The hole is between 3/8" and 1/2".  It would
be _too_ easy otherwise.
I bought a used tool with many different sizes on it and strangely I still
don't have one that fits exactly.
I ahev no idea what the correct tool looks like.

ulix

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