1985 Borg Warner 9 bolt fill plug
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Re: 1985 Borg Warner 9 bolt fill plug
GET RID OF that STUUUUUUUPID rubber crap.
½" pipe tap. NOT all the way through, VERY gingerly; then a brass pipe plug with about 6 - 8 wraps of Teflon tape. Be careful: if you run the pipe tap too deep, a plug will screw all the way through without ever tightening up. All you need is acoupla threads. Butt hay, once you do this to it, no more STUUUUUUPID rubber plug CRAP to worry about.
Works on Dana rear ends too. They have the same size plug, and it fails and leeeeeeeeeks EXACTLY the same way. Amazing how some mfrs don't learn from what they see going on around them. [sophomore engineering summer intern] "Oh gee... this looks eeeezzzzzie and cheeeeeep... and [respected mfr] does it... if I put this on the drawing everybody will think it's accepted industry practice and I'll get hired when I graduate!!!" [/sophomore engineering summer intern] And that's how STUUUUUUUUUUUPID CRAP like that spreads insidiously throughout an entire industry like a virus.
½" pipe tap. NOT all the way through, VERY gingerly; then a brass pipe plug with about 6 - 8 wraps of Teflon tape. Be careful: if you run the pipe tap too deep, a plug will screw all the way through without ever tightening up. All you need is acoupla threads. Butt hay, once you do this to it, no more STUUUUUUPID rubber plug CRAP to worry about.
Works on Dana rear ends too. They have the same size plug, and it fails and leeeeeeeeeks EXACTLY the same way. Amazing how some mfrs don't learn from what they see going on around them. [sophomore engineering summer intern] "Oh gee... this looks eeeezzzzzie and cheeeeeep... and [respected mfr] does it... if I put this on the drawing everybody will think it's accepted industry practice and I'll get hired when I graduate!!!" [/sophomore engineering summer intern] And that's how STUUUUUUUUUUUPID CRAP like that spreads insidiously throughout an entire industry like a virus.
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Re: 1985 Borg Warner 9 bolt fill plug
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Re: 1985 Borg Warner 9 bolt fill plug
Or you could buy a new plug. I had same issue and found a new one online for a few dollars. The new one is soft and pliable so it sealed up fine.
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