cambria

I have searched the workshop manual as well as Haynes and I can not find the tool number or the size of the allen head required to remove the fill or the drain plug. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Terry

Conor

17mm
I think that is for all 944 series cars

944LT1

Its a 17mm allen head.

IceShark

And make sure you clean out the socket as well as squirt the threads with rust penetrator the day before you try to take the plugs out. You will probably need at least a 20" purchase to back those babies out. Take the top plug out first so you don't wind up with no oil in the case and a broken top filler plug you can't get out.

Dave in Chicago

If the plugs are getting rounded out from butcho removal attempts of years-gone-by, buy a couple of new plugs. They're cheap, even from Porsche (think it's actually a VW part).

Simon Jones

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by cambria:
<strong>I have searched the workshop manual as well as Haynes and I can not find the tool number or the size of the allen head required to remove the fill or the drain plug.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Haynes, page 49, section 36, "Note: Carefully read through this section...You will also need a 17mm Allen wrench to remove the fill and drain plugs." Also caption to illo 36.3 "A 17mm Allen head wrench..."

Haynes is almost useless, but not completely!

Be prepared for a SERIOUS struggle. Those babies are pretty tight unless someone's had them out recently.

IceShark

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Simon Jones:
<strong>

Haynes is almost useless, but not completely!

Be prepared for a SERIOUS struggle. Those babies are pretty tight unless someone's had them out recently.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Simon is correct on Haynes being more or less useless on most occasions. I wonder what those guys were drinking when they made that manual up.

The reason these plugs get jammed in so tight is that the plug is a tapered pipe thread. The hole is a normal straight thread. I'd like to meet the moron that thought this arrangement up. <img border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" title="" src="graemlins/cussing.gif" />

Probably the same guy that designed the wiring. <img border="0" alt="[hiha]" title="" src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" />

iloveporsches

I took mine out while the trans. was laying on the floor. They're not so bad when you can use a 5' pipe to help!