I have been wanting to change my rear drive oil change....I cant get my oil upper fitting of....I have rear exhust...is it stuck? Do I need to heat it up with a torch? PLEASE HELP!!!
Rear Oil Change
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I have been wanting to change my rear drive oil change....I cant get my oil upper fitting of....I have rear exhust...is it stuck? Do I need to heat it up with a torch? PLEASE HELP!!!
[/quote]I eventually had to get an 8mm hex socket on a decent breaker bar. No heat required. Make sure you can get top one out before the bottom.
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I do have a rear exhaust...I have the exhuast coming under the top fitting.
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When I hear of all the crazy problems....I'm glad my Slingshot is 99% OEM. Can still get at all the things that need to be attended tooooo.
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Luigi I have that job coming up this spring too. I've heard they can be a bitch to get out, and to make sure you get the fill plug out before the drain plug. My plan is to hit them with some penetrant a couple of times a day or two before I try. I use Seafoam Deep Creep and Kroil together and it almost always works (eventually).
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Once you get them the first time, they are okay after that. I think the factory just over-torques them with whatever power tools they have. Most 8mm allen wrenches just aren't long enough to get good torque to get them out. After that, it's easy.
Oh, and replace that gear oil at 1500 miles, 5k miles, and 10k miles. After that you're good for 100k. I just replaced mine (new angle drive a couple months ago) and the amount of metal chips and flakes WAS RIDICULOUS! Looked like someone dropped metal shavings from a drill into the oil.
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I was wondering about that... over torquing. I think that that I will remove that exhuast at the bend.
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Could one of you boys post pics of where these top and bottom plugs are located?
Thanks!!
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Better. Here's a video that shows you how to do it. They are located on the drivers side of the angle drive, right behind the battery. You don't have to remove the battery or jack up the vehicle to do it.
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I watched this...Mine has the rear exaust going underneath the top fill hole...!!! Maybe DDM will help my??!
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I watched this...Mine has the rear exaust going underneath the top fill hole...!!! Maybe DDM will help my??!
can you take a picture of it? Can you not access it from the back side, above the pipe?