Trans plug size
 

Is the drain plug on the transmission case a 17mm allen? for some reason that sounds right to me, but i dont have that size and i just want to make sure before i buy it
thanks,
Mike

Yep, it’s 17mm.

I never did find one at my FLAPS (my new favorite acronym). PP sells them for $27.40 (probably Porsche original).

www.bugcity.com sells them for $3.98, search for part # 7029. I can only imagine they are very cheap, but at $4 bucks a pop you can afford to wear a few out.

I was lucky, my buddy had one. Saved me $4bucks. WooHoo!

The "shade tree" way.

I took an extra lug bolt, which happens to be 17mm, and two matching nuts, double nutted the bolts and used my socket wrench to remove the plug.

good luck

The "shade tree" way.

I took an extra lug bolt, which happens to be 17mm, and two matching nuts, double nutted the bolt and used my socket wrench to remove the plug.

good luck

Not in exactly one million years would I have thought of that! Clever.

Unfortunately for me it’s those clever ideas that leave me sitting in the engine bay wondering how things ever came to be that among the tools spread around me are a hammer and a pipe wrench http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/smile.gif.

I am not sure I should tell this story, but here it goes.

I had been using a 10mm (17mm hex) bolt with a couple of nuts jammed together to remove the tranny plugs. The morning (4 AM) before an autocross, I decided to replace the fluid. I used my home made 17mm allen wrench and a wratchet to loosen up the drain plug and then drained the oil. After the fluid was completely out, I tried to use my special tool to remove the fill plug. No luck, the fill plug was stuck and the nuts were turning on the bolt. To my surpise, the air breather on top of the tranny is 17mm hex. So I remove the breather and used it along with the socket and wratchet to loosen the 17mm fill plug http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/smile.gif. Works great! Not recommended, but it will work in a crunch.

Most VW FLAPS stock the 17mm Allen socket - if there isn't one of those near you Sears stocks 17mm allen wrenches for ~ $8 bucks.

Always take the filler plug out FIRST. Best to find out it's stuck in the tranny BEFORE you drain all the fluid out http://www.pelicanparts.com/ultimate/smile.gif. BTDT