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Re: [Healeys] Overdrive drain plug

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Overdrive drain plug
From: John Vrugtman <javrugtman@htcnet.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 09:18:25 -0500
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Go to a motorcycle shop and get a exhaust nut wrench.  The one I use 
cost $10 and was for a Norton Commando
John

On 12/16/2014 8:10 AM, Simon Lachlan wrote:
> I have a MkII BT7 with the big flat brass plug with square cut-outs.
>
> So, I'm trying to find a tool off the shelf to facilitate the plug's
> removal.
>
> Grovelling, flat on my back with my arm extended into the oily darkness, I
> measure its width at +/- 68.5mm or 3 and 11/16inches.
>
> Does anyone know its precise size or does anyone have one accessible and be
> kind enough to measure it for me?
>
>   
>
> Incidentally, the discovering the correct name of the tool that I was
> seeking initially made my task difficult. It transpires that what I, at
> least, am looking for is apparently called a "Hook wrench" or, less often, a
> "C-spanner". Now, those terms are apparently what we use in the
> UK........what you other guys call them is your own affair!
>
> Simon
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