- 1. filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:24:11 -0400
- It's the simple things that drive you mad... Somehow or when the side fill plug on my TR6's transmission got so tightly wedged it isn't real. I'm just trying to change the gearbox oil. Every wrench I
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00575.html (8,368 bytes)
- 2. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: Don Malling <dmallin@attglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:12:23 -0400
- Maybe you need a "star" socket. At least that's what we always called them. Looks like a star. It has 8 points I think so it fits a square post. Don Malling
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00577.html (8,931 bytes)
- 3. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Holmgren" <jholmgren@advertising.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:24:44 -0400
- I bought a 'square' wrench from a guy on eBay. Fits the square head bolt on my oil pan and transmission perfectly on my '75 Spit - and it's nice and sturdy so you can bang on it with a BFH if you nee
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00579.html (8,596 bytes)
- 4. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Holmgren" <jholmgren@advertising.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:28:44 -0400
- Actually...here's an example of one (not sure if this is the guy I bought mine from or not): http://tinyurl.com/7egye -Jim --Original Message-- From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-trium
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00580.html (8,754 bytes)
- 5. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:41:39 -0700
- You can get a square wrench ... there's a fellow on eBay that sells them from time to time although I don't recall his handle offhand. Or what I like, an 8-point socket from Sears. Once it's out (an
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00581.html (9,047 bytes)
- 6. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: emanteno@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:44:34 +0000
- -- Original message -- I acquired one of these from the source over the weekend. The source is long time TRiumph owner and racer Joe Alexander. I don't know if he is currently listing them on ebay or
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00582.html (8,508 bytes)
- 7. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: emanteno@comcast.net
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:47:33 +0000
- -- Original message -- This one is different from the one that Joe is selling. Joe's fits square drain plugs on 1 end, and the rear brake adjusters on the other. Irv Korey 74 TR6 CF22767U 63 TR4 VSCD
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00583.html (8,295 bytes)
- 8. filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "James R. Holekamp" <jholekamp@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:50:20 -0500
- Try an 8 Point 7/16 socket (Sears, McMaster-Carr, Snap-On, etc). This tool should properly grip the square head of the several drain/fill plugs on your TR6 - if the plug is not too rounded. I'm off t
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00586.html (8,430 bytes)
- 9. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: Dave1massey@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:50:11 EDT
- Quelle coincidence! Joe Alexander was on here just the other day advertising his new square wrench. One end fits the brake adjusters and the other end fits...wait for it...the transmission plug! I ju
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00587.html (8,831 bytes)
- 10. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:51:59 -0400
- Hi Dave: Nice idea, but I don't know if the 1/2" drive will turn the 7/16" plug head, since its edges were somewhat rounded by the force of my cursing last night. I've arranged to get a nice wrench f
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00590.html (9,501 bytes)
- 11. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "R. Ashford Little II" <70TR6@mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:34:09 -0400
- TRF & Moss sell a replacement fill plug that is either a six or eight point plug vs. the square head, plus I believe it's magnetic. R. Ashford Little II '70 TR6 CC54994
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00601.html (8,513 bytes)
- 12. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:00:18 -0700
- My plugs are 7/16" across the flats ... a 1/2" drive isn't going to fit for beans. Randall
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00603.html (8,572 bytes)
- 13. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:11:51 EDT
- Somehow or when the side fill plug on my TR6's transmission got so tightly wedged it isn't real. I'm just trying to change the gearbox oil. Every wrench I've got just keeps slipping. Is there a speci
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00604.html (9,957 bytes)
- 14. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: Dave1massey@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:06:38 EDT
- I dunno, Andy, that sounds an awful lot like that "M" word. Dave
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00608.html (8,386 bytes)
- 15. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: Dave1massey@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:11:48 EDT
- My plugs are 7/16" across the flats ... a 1/2" drive isn't going to fit for beans. Have you tried it? It has a number of years ago but I did it. I don't remember how loosey-goosey it was but I do re
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00609.html (8,450 bytes)
- 16. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: Dave1massey@cs.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:16:31 EDT
- I hope it is a six sided head or else we're back to where we started: needing an eight point socket. And Joe's wrench won't work either. Dave
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00611.html (8,335 bytes)
- 17. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:39:29 EDT
- And maybe removing and replacing the plug more often? ;-) I dunno, Andy, that sounds an awful lot like that "M" word. == Uh, yeah, it does. Maintenance and Carburetor...two French words both meaning
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00620.html (8,655 bytes)
- 18. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:57:34 -0700
- Can't say that I have ... I've had the 8-pt socket for a long time so no reason to use the wrong tool. Someone else mentioned the hex head magnetic plug from TRF ... I use those for drain plugs (the
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00636.html (8,608 bytes)
- 19. RE: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:08:04 -0700
- Can't say that's wrong, but I've seen some really tight ones that didn't have any signs of corrosion. IMO it's more likely to be a side effect of the differential expansion of the dissimilar metals,
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00637.html (9,226 bytes)
- 20. Re: filling is draining me (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:29:14 EDT
- Can't say that's wrong, but I've seen some really tight ones that didn't have any signs of corrosion. IMO it's more likely to be a side effect of the differential expansion of the dissimilar metals,
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00649.html (10,051 bytes)
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