Last night I was working on my 357c with my buddy, we were installing the oil restrictor kit. He's in his early 40's and has been doing this longer than I have. When we went to pull out the oil galley pipe plugs one was really crapped up. The allen wrench wobbled all over and it popped out under moderate force.
I thought we were screwed at the point and we'd be drilling. So he says "Naw, I've got a great trick for this." What happened next was amazing. He grabbed a tube of valve grinding compound (he prefers coarse) squeezes some onto the allen wrench and then shoves more in the plug. Then he says, "watch this!" Any of you who have been working on or around cars for a while know that phrase means either something really awesome is about to happen or (the more common thing) someone is about to royally screw something up or hurt themselves. Well anyway he puts box end wrench on the allen key and pulls like crazy, finally it clicks really loud and begins to back out. Amazing!!!!
I couldn't believe it didn't strip out the rest of the way. I've been working on cars since I was 9 and had never seen this. He claims it works on stirpped bolts with a socket and phillips head screws too.
Sorry for the long post but I just had to share. Definitely use this next time you strip something out or round something off. Totally amazing, I swear!
I thought we were screwed at the point and we'd be drilling. So he says "Naw, I've got a great trick for this." What happened next was amazing. He grabbed a tube of valve grinding compound (he prefers coarse) squeezes some onto the allen wrench and then shoves more in the plug. Then he says, "watch this!" Any of you who have been working on or around cars for a while know that phrase means either something really awesome is about to happen or (the more common thing) someone is about to royally screw something up or hurt themselves. Well anyway he puts box end wrench on the allen key and pulls like crazy, finally it clicks really loud and begins to back out. Amazing!!!!
I couldn't believe it didn't strip out the rest of the way. I've been working on cars since I was 9 and had never seen this. He claims it works on stirpped bolts with a socket and phillips head screws too.
Sorry for the long post but I just had to share. Definitely use this next time you strip something out or round something off. Totally amazing, I swear!