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Originally Posted by Blk 76

I do not have the acetylene torch set so will it hurt to try the small propane torch? I have heard that the pipe plug needs to be heated and I have heard that the area around the plug needs heated, is one better than the other? How much heat is safe without damage to engine or gaskets?

You have to heat the plug itself. Don't waste your time heating around the plug. I have removed thousands of oil galley plugs and have tried different ways of heating, and by far the best method has been heating the plug until red hot and squirt oil or WD-40 on it. The plug will instantly shrink, suck oil into the threads and break itself loose from the threads. You won't get it hot enough to hurt anything as long as you heat the plug itself.