Changing the oil

....should be easy, right? But the bloody thing has an 8mm (maybe) square
socket in the sump plug, a tool for which isn't available from any tool shop
around here. Haven't tried a volvo dealer yet but don't want to give the
satisfaction. Just wanted to say... geeze.

 

Another of the joys of the V6.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

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Can't you just use your ratchet with no socket
on it? My honda's trannie plug is like that,
no socket required, just the ratchet or a
breaker bar.

t

 

special volvo wrench required...it
keeps up the revenue stream.....

 

They are only 1/4", 3/8" or 1/2" (and come in some bigger sizes). 5/16"
would have been about right but there is no such.

 

Find a local machine shop and have them make you a socket, or do it yourself
by filing down a short grade-8 bolt with a hand file or bench grinder. It'll
cost you only a couple bucks.

 

Find a short piece of square bar stock that will fit it, and apply a
Crescent wrench.

Then borrow a car and go buy a conventional drain plug and replace it.


Gary

 

Thanks you all for the suggestions folks, I got a 5/16" worn lathe tool from
a mate. But it was really hard from good local toolshops and a volvo dealer
didn't want to know... they must expect the car to be scrapped after the 10
years support quoted. Good advert for a new one. not.

 

Volvo does not make a tool for the drain plug on the V-6 Motors any good
auto parts store should be able to supply you with the correct Allen key
to remove the drain plug

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Is for the New York City Firemen who lost their lives on September 11,2001.
The official count is 343, but there was also a volunteer who lost his life
aiding in the initial rescue efforts. And I will never forget them as
long as I live,
nor should any American.

 

I would have thought so and can believe there are better sops than here in
western australia, but none of the local shops had anything. Repco told me
there was a special volvo tool but they probably wouldn't sell one to me.

 

Sure it's a pig of a motor & possibly the worst thing volvo ever did, but
you choose 25 year old cars on different criteria. This is a fairly minor
problemette specially when the whole thing cost less than a head job on a
Camry. Other cars & motors have foibles too, this newsgoup is quite active
with peoples' problems but the v6 is barely figures... you'd wonder if any
volvo really is that flash based on some stories here.

 

If there is a special Volvo tool you can purchase from the dealers part
department I will check this with the parts department on Thursday &
post back with the part # & approximate cost
Glenn

--
"*-344-*Never Forgotten"
Is for the New York City Firemen who lost their lives on September 11,2001.
The official count is 343, but there was also a volunteer who lost his life
aiding in the initial rescue efforts. And I will never forget them as
long as I live,
nor should any American.

 

Why not try a Renault or Peugeot dealer? They both used the same V6 motor.

Cheers, Peter.

 

Your frustration continues as I found this discontinued (no replacement)
item:
http://www.etoolcart.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=3840

8 mm appears to be correct, according to the description at the bottom.
Yahoo shopping indicates they were about $10 US for the set, but it finds no
other hits on the part number... ditto Google. Kd-tools.com does not list it
in their catalog. I suspect KD tools was a sole source and they have stopped
production.

Mike

 

Again thanks for your trouble Michael, Glen & etc. the lathe tool from my
mate should work but haven't tried it yet. Meanwhile I might have set a
record for longest thread for the smallest bit for a volvo?

 

That's a really smart suggestion although pretty obvious didn't occur to me.
That will be my next resort for sure if my lathe cutter doesn't work.

 

You can get them off tool trucks. Around here there are Snap-On and MAC
tool trucks, they probably won't have it on board, but they'd be able to
get it. Or to the "quickie oil change place" method - Vice grips!

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

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We have snapon too, you have to be somewhere they go (I work at home as a
draftsman) & they don't seem to have an address in this state, they also
don't seem to have much of a website. Vicegrips are one of my tools of
choice but this is a female plug... double adaptor so to speak.

 

I can't help you finding a truck, but for a mere A$ 30.47...
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...5528&group_ID=259&store=australia&dir=catalog
It looks like you can order it online.
As I remember the V6 drain plug, there's about 3mm sticking out that you
could get your vice grips onto. (I've seen them damaged this way at my
friend's shop.) Then buy a proper plug, with a hex head. Over here the
V6 as installed in the 200 series had a plug with 16 mm threads, the
version in the 760 had 18 mm threads.

--
Mike F.
Thornhill (near Toronto), Ont.

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Thank you Mike, it's even an Aus. website. Part of my trouble was the
nomenclature (I wouldn't have called it a socket... or a pipe plug). I will
see how the bit I have works first but might bite the bullet despite the
price - my engineering substitutions usually don't go too well partly
because the workshop is a bit too basic & now full of leftovers from
daughters' attempts at leaving home.