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½" pipe tap. NOT all the way through, VERY gingerly; then a brass pipe plug with about 6 - 8 wraps of Teflon tape. Be careful: if you run the pipe tap too deep, a plug will screw all the way through without ever tightening up. All you need is acoupla threads. Butt hay, once you do this to it, no more STUUUUUUPID rubber plug CRAP to worry about.
Works on Dana rear ends too. They have the same size plug, and it fails and leeeeeeeeeks EXACTLY the same way. Amazing how some mfrs don't learn from what they see going on around them. [sophomore engineering summer intern] "Oh gee... this looks eeeezzzzzie and cheeeeeep... and [respected mfr] does it... if I put this on the drawing everybody will think it's accepted industry practice and I'll get hired when I graduate!!!" [/sophomore engineering summer intern] And that's how STUUUUUUUUUUUPID CRAP like that spreads insidiously throughout an entire industry like a virus.
Last edited by sofakingdom; Sep 26, 2024 at 10:03 PM.
The "Mopar" (Dana, actually) plug is about ¾" dia.
I can't for the life of me figure out how something that STUUUUUUPID is used by so many mfrs who should know better. It's ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to fail, sooner than later. Mystifyingly STUUUUUUUUPID.
I had 3 Cheeeeeeep Bland Cherokees in my driveway together at one time. The females in my household kept buying them for some reason. Same problem. (leeeeeeeeeeeks, crumbles when you try to add fluid,. etc.) Same solution for all (pipe plug). Permanent. Done.
The "Mopar" (Dana, actually) plug is about ¾" dia.
I can't for the life of me figure out how something that STUUUUUUPID is used by so many mfrs who should know better. It's ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to fail, sooner than later. Mystifyingly STUUUUUUUUPID.
I had 3 Cheeeeeeep Bland Cherokees in my driveway together at one time. The females in my household kept buying them for some reason. Same problem. (leeeeeeeeeeeks, crumbles when you try to add fluid,. etc.) Same solution for all (pipe plug). Permanent. Done.
Dorman 65293 is the correct rubber plug. Never had a drop lost after I put this new one into my 9 bolt.
Very helpful information. I too have not lost a drop after installing nice new plug years ago. But Im still scratching my head how this is possible, because Im told this is SSTUUUUUUPID and ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN to fail, sooner than later. Oh well, maybe the new plug will last 30+ years like the original did. I'll be dead by then and the car will have long since gone to the scrap pile. I don't mind if some idiot at the scrap yard looks at that STUUUUUUPID rubber plug and just cannot believe someone would have ever used it.
In all the Cheeeeeps in my driveway, it had failed by about 15 years. Can't imagine it's much different in a 9-bolt. Maybe some people don't mind driving around with rear end grease dripping off their axle for years on end due to that crappy just-get-through-the-warranty-period stupidity, but it disturbs me greatly.
