I find Metrinch spaners really handy. I bought a few when I had my mini years ago to save buying metric and imperial spanner sets, and they work quite well.

and yes, there were a few celebratory beers

Woo Hoo !!
Another plug bites the floor. Good to hear there wasent any blood or skin lost either !!

I bet you had a few beers to celabrate

Congratulations! Even though it was years ago, I recall exactly how painful it was to get the plugs out of my 1200 tranny and diff ...

I couldn't help it, I had to look up what a "Metrinch spanner" is ... for us americans it translates to "modified combo wrench". Instead of hex or 12-point box-end, it has a odd 6-cam-shaped end, supposedly to grip on the flats of the bolt instead of the hex edges. I'm actually surprised it worked for this purpose ...

SUCCESS!!!!

I finally got the mangled plug out last night.
I used my Metrinch spanner, a peice of pipe on the end, and a lot of grunting.

Thanks for your help guys

Thanks for all your suggestions guys.

I will crawl under the beast to do battle again this evening, and see how I go.

If I dont have any luck, you will probably hear the swearing from where you all are

G'Day All,
Around here we call them "Stillson's" (plumers wrench) As far as I know there are two types , one with a round top jaw and the other has a flat top jaw, I prefur to use the flat top jaw type if room is a prob. Use a smaller one if you can get one , should be about 8 inch's long. If you use anything bigger you will pull the tranny out on top of your self, not a good look. or break a few fingers , just make sure you have a very good grip on the plug

Oh and make sure you have a big breakfast and TAP around the plug and housing, good luck

Regards
amshaw

Ooh! Doesn't that just piss you off when some gorilla overtightens the fill plug? The five speed I installed in Gil had the same problem. No matter what we tried, it would not budge.
I finally pulled one of the switches on the side and filled from there. Took a bit longer and I'm still not sure if I got the right amount in, but it did sort of work.
I learned a valuable lesson that night: remove the fill plug BEFORE installing the transmission.

Yeah, plumbers wrench thats the one, cheers ddgonzal. Thats what I have got and as ddgonzal said it bites down with its teeth as you apply more force on the wrench, similar to lock pliers/vice grips, but they dont actually lock they just get tighter.

ernals_ute

you can always try to "remachine" the screw head. I have done it a few times on several cars. For exemple if you have a 19 mm screw head you can grind (I think this is the word) it to 18 mm or 17 mm.

I hope it helps you.

Ricardo

i really doubt if you can pour anything in the gear stick hole. It's just a solid shaft that goes into the trans AND considering how thick gear oil is, it's not going to seep in.
Pouring the oil in the tailshaft would work, but you would have to lift the back of your car up really high. You can't pour the oil uphill.
What about using a propane torch(plumbers torch) to heat the area around the plug, being carefull not to BBQ your ride.