| Author | Message | ||
     Sneth |
This is on my car, not my bike. To refill my coolant i need to remove this cap on the highest point of the coolant system. i cannot fill at the side can like most people. It's just a square socket, but the thing is stripped bad from the last place that did this for me. The one time i had someplace change my fluids..... Any tricks for this? It's practically a circle now. All i can think of is dremeling off the top and making some sort of makeshift plug.... | ||
| Mikej |
Is it metal or plastic, and if metal is it some sort of steel or some sort of aluminum or pot metal? Can you drill into it at a couple of angles and insert rods to use as leverage points? Next option, which I've had to do, is to pop off an upper radiator hose and fill from there. Messy but it works in a bind when out in the middle of nowhere. | ||
| Sneth |
it's metal. There is room to drill, but i dont think the rods would be strong enough. My fallback plan was to pop off the hose, but then it's near impossible to bleed the system of air, which is why i need to get in there in the first place. It's too wide to slot it for a flathead. Of course, all of this is a bitch, when yur trying to work in the tiny space of your parking garage spot.... | ||
| Reepicheep |
Maybe drill a shallow hole somewhere close to the outside edge and use a hammer and punch at a sharp angle to try and get it to rotate? That'd probably be my first try. Or drill two two smaller holes, tap em, then insert good bolts, and put an adjustable crescent wrench across them? I would worry about getting debris in the cooling system though if you went through that cap. Braze on / weld on a bolt, then remove that? Angle grinder and vice grips? | ||
| Sneth |
i might try : Or drill two two smaller holes, tap em, then insert good bolts, and put an adjustable crescent wrench across them so far it's just given me more reason to ride my bike. I know welding would be the best route, but unfortunately, i do not have those tools available. | ||
| Littlefield |
If it's a square hole for a 3/8 or 1/2 inch drive you could stick a short extension in the hole with some JB Weld. | ||
| Blake |
Bleed the system of air?  That's a new one to me. Top of radiator always has some air, no? | ||
| Edwardanthony |
try either a hex head bolt or a reversed torx head bolt in the hole |
