Maturecheese
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I was getting a rumbling/groaning noise from the transmission/running gear so upon reading a couple of posts on here decided to remove the propshaft. This cured the noise that appeared to be coming from the ird and so as we were due to tow a caravan on the coming weekend I decided to drain the oil from the unit and put new in it with molyslip, so far so good.
I had previously topped up the IRD just after buying the vehicle as there is a slight leak from the driveshaft oil seal and so I drained the unit without checking if the top up plug would undo. You can probably guess what happened next, the dam plug would not undo and as I was using quite a long extension bar to get to it , it was a right cow and eventually started rounding off. Cutting a long story short I was left with no option but to drill it out bot using a pilot drill and working up in size until it was weaken enough to chisel it loose. Upon getting to 8.5mm the dam drill bit went through unexpectedly and snapped about an inch off. Gutted I carried on increasing the size of the drill and finally got it off.
How in gods name am I going to get that snapped bit out? I have borrowed my brother in laws scope he bought in Lidl but it really isn't up to the job. Is it possible to remove the end of the IRD where the driveshaft locates as I notice it is bolted together there as I really don't fancy removing the whole unit
I had previously topped up the IRD just after buying the vehicle as there is a slight leak from the driveshaft oil seal and so I drained the unit without checking if the top up plug would undo. You can probably guess what happened next, the dam plug would not undo and as I was using quite a long extension bar to get to it , it was a right cow and eventually started rounding off. Cutting a long story short I was left with no option but to drill it out bot using a pilot drill and working up in size until it was weaken enough to chisel it loose. Upon getting to 8.5mm the dam drill bit went through unexpectedly and snapped about an inch off. Gutted I carried on increasing the size of the drill and finally got it off.
How in gods name am I going to get that snapped bit out? I have borrowed my brother in laws scope he bought in Lidl but it really isn't up to the job. Is it possible to remove the end of the IRD where the driveshaft locates as I notice it is bolted together there as I really don't fancy removing the whole unit