Author Topic: Trouble drilling/tapping primary fuel plugs  (Read 1709 times)

Offline phk1967

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Trouble drilling/tapping primary fuel plugs
« on: July 19, 2014, 06:44:22 PM »
I bought Cliff's fuel plug reseal kit as it sounded easy but I'm having problems. I drilled in about 1/4" on both of them and can't seem to go any deeper, it looks like the heads of the plugs may have broken off. I did try some smaller diameter drill bits but it didn't do any good. Right now I can barely even tap any threads in there either to hold the set screws , using 10-32 tap and #29? bit that came with it. Does anybody have Any suggestions on what I can do to get the remainder of the plug out so I can seal them off ? Will a small torch work? I don't want to damage the crab so I'm trying to be careful.
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Offline phk1967

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Re: Trouble drilling/tapping primary fuel plugs
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2014, 04:00:26 PM »
Never mind it ended up having steel plugs in it and the regular drill bits couldn't cut into them.