Drain Plug kit?

[mr. fix it]

Hi, has anyone ever installed a drain plug into the 8 /34" diff housing?

With my factory setup, All I can do is suck it out from the filler plug or loosen the pumpkin from the housing and watch it drain..

Any comments?o_O

 

[1978 NYB]

The Dana 44 axles in my Titan have drain plugs. You can drill and tap the housing on a 8.75 but then again how often are you going to drain and fill the diff if it's not being run on a race track?

 

[65sporty]

You can drill and tap it for a pipe plug, but as was pointed out how often are you going to drain it?

 

[mr. fix it]

Not often but it's apart now so why not?

 

[cantflip]

Not often but it's apart now so why not?

Installing A Drain-Plug In The Differential Housing - Mopar Muscle Magazine

For WIW... not sure I would go there. Find a plug and tap first, then drill appropriate size... don't go too big with the plug and use one that has a recessed allen head instead of a square hanging out.


The more I think about this the more I think it would just be adding a new location for leaks.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Usually you are removing the grease to fix something so the drop out has to come out anyway.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

No big deal. Just buy the drill and tap az a set to match and stay standard. 3/8", 7/16', 1/2", 9/16', 5/8'

 

[cantflip]

No big deal. Just buy the drill and tap az a set to match and stay standard. 3/8", 7/16', 1/2", 9/16', 5/8'

hat wrong Jer, don't you wan to make sure he has a set of metric tools too?

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

With my little FWDz I need both SAE + MM because their what I call early '80z transition year carz. Yeah don't know from one fastener to the next what Mother did on the same vehicle. I think we can assume that an 8 3/4" pig in ah C-Body iz SAE

 

[cantflip]

With my little FWDz I need both SAE + MM because their what I call early '80z transition year carz. Yeah don't know from one fastener to the next what Mother did on the same vehicle. I think we can assume that an 8 3/4" pig in ah C-Body iz SAE

USA cars were all kinda like that then... I remember pulling a Buick transmission cross member that was a mix of 5/8 an 15mm heads... I remember because I couldn't believe it, had to try to start them all to figure which went where on reassembly.

 

[Flatlander]

USA cars were all kinda like that then... I remember pulling a Buick transmission cross member that was a mix of 5/8 an 15mm heads... I remember because I couldn't believe it, had to try to start them all to figure which went where on reassembly.

There must have been a lot of transition years, my '04 Dodge has a mix of SAE and Metric.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but metric fasteners are the invention of the devil!

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

My sympathies. And here all this time I thought it waz the Manufacturez in bed with Snap-On and Craftsman

 

[stubs300]

The more I think about this the more I think it would just be adding a new location for leaks.

Tell me about it. I Had a major PITA time to get mine sealed up but the knunklehead that did it when I bought my van. I think it was that article that finally got me to seal it up. I'm afraid to take it out and wind up having it leak again.