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I thought I had a simple one tonight. After a week or so of near constant rain, this afternoon/evening the weather suddenly turned wonderful. Of course, I felt the need to put some work into a truck as soon as that happened. I brought my '84 M1009 over to my apartment, pulled the rear diff cover to drain the government fluid, and started cleaning things up. I made good use of my new set of Craftsman gasket scrapers (worth their weight in gold!) and wiped down the cover. Nothing looked out of place, and no stray shards were stuck to the magnet.
Unfortunately, I found out when I tried to pull the fill plug that the 3/8" square opening in the plug is now 5-sided. Soon afterwards I managed to run out of light, so the truck is spending the night with the differential cover sitting on top of the spare tire in the cargo area.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to try some more to force that plug out... which will probably require a replacement plug. If all else fails, I'll probably leave that plug in place and add a new one to the diff cover or something similar. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
Unfortunately, I found out when I tried to pull the fill plug that the 3/8" square opening in the plug is now 5-sided. Soon afterwards I managed to run out of light, so the truck is spending the night with the differential cover sitting on top of the spare tire in the cargo area.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to try some more to force that plug out... which will probably require a replacement plug. If all else fails, I'll probably leave that plug in place and add a new one to the diff cover or something similar. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.