Stuck Gearbox Fill Plug on my NA

[Gad-Westy]

It was my intention to replace all fluids on my 95 1.8. I've done all of the others but the gearbox oil filler plug is pretty stuck. Luckliy I tried removing this before the drain plug so the car is very much still mobile but I would like to have another crack at this sometime.

Having read a few horror story about damaging the housing around the plug if you go over the top with a breaker bar, I thought I better seek some advice first.

Annoyingly it's a 14mm square plug so have only been using a spanner and penetrating fluid thus far. Didn't fancy trying much heat with 2l of oil sat right next to it.

[drgoatboy]

Got anyway to add heat? Always worked for me on stuck filler plugs (although not on a 5 I admit). Quick blast with a standard blowtorch seems to work wonders

[Gad-Westy]

drgoatboy said:

Got anyway to add heat? Always worked for me on stuck filler plugs (although not on a 5 I admit). Quick blast with a standard blowtorch seems to work wonders

I have a blowtorch on standby. Had a couple of reservations about using heat though. Firstly all that oil sat the other side of the plug. I could drain the oil first of course but then I'm buggered if I can't shift the fill plug. And the other thing was that with this being a plug I wasn't sure that expanding it through heat would have any great benefit.

[drgoatboy]

It's worked for me in the past on a few occasions. Don't think you will cook the oil with a blowtorch but I'm no expert.