Well son-of-a-gun!!! http://www.sjdiscounttools.com/the485.html Ya learn something every day.

One of them looks like it is designed for the old brass type or http://www.class1.com/Main/Products,796,796.aspx

This is what the "valve stopper-upper" on the HHR looks like -
http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,ca...,parttype,2176
(sorry for small picture) they are pretty light duty (just plastic) and are supposed to be just hand-tightened/removed - so if you have to use a socket on it, I think one is going to have bigger problems on the horizon.

 

petC O C K

There, I said it!

 

You always have the answer Joe !!!

 

Sir, you have a P O T T Y mouth!!!

 

And you thought that there are no Special tools!
The real problem I had was that plastic to plastic threads with ant-freeze added just have a little too much friction for the 2 fingers that there is room for up there, even after it is loosened up.

BTW, you do not have to remove the whole thingie, it is a drain thingie, so you only need to open it till coolant flows. However, it flows pretty slowly. so I ended up removing it. The head gasket repair I was doing required draining the system several times, my fingers still hurt "I got blisters on me fingers" (that's a Beatles reference).

 

Sorry I mentioned it!!

Yeah it's almost like a friction fit - I think I loosed mine from the top. And yeah, it does flow slowly.

 

Petcawk
Petcox
Petkok
Petcoc
Petcok

Or Petrooster

Figure I would see what would pass.

The only tool I ever used was for leverage IF over tight, some pump pliers. Depends on the car. I will be doing this job bright and early tommorrow.

 

Good luck, plastic on plastic does not need to be over tight to be difficult! It's not just the initial twist that's the problem. The inaccessability engineers were hard at work on this one, it only has 1 dog and there is not enough room to get a 180 degree turn with the pliers, so you will end up messing the plastic up.

Maybe if you liberally apply duct tape to the plier jaws you can avoid damage.

 

Yea, I can throw some on. After working on F bodies, you tend to look at cramp spaces differently