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From : nathan w collier

Q: on oct 28 1216 pm denny wddo...@woh.rr.com wrote on oct 28 953 am denny wddo...@woh.rr.com wrote on oct 28 851 am rick505 lott1...@aol.com wrote over pressures and poped the plug outyour nuts snowman how can a threaded plug pop out the only way it can come out is if the threads were gone or was not tight and it would unscrew and fall off not pop out under pressure also if it built up too much pressure it would blow the axle seals or pinion seal first not blow the plug. -- message posted more information athttp//www.talkaboutautos.com/faq.html come on the answer came from snoman it must be right! snoman is this answer based off your vast technical abilities the same abilities that you told roy he lacked the same abilities that led you to tell a poster to trade in a truck due to a bad $30 sensor god i hate to do this but in snoidiots defence it is a rubber plug that just pops in. but i do think hes full of shit about the vent plugged and the heat and the resulting pressure forced it out. that is stuff for grimms fairy tales. somebody just forgot to put it back in when they checked the level. to the original poster get a quart or two of fluid fill it up and put and new plug in it. drive on and be happy. if there was any damage you would have heard the noise. denny- hide quoted text - - show quoted text - i was not refering to the pop off valve denny. neither was i. im fairly sure the fill hole just has a rubber plug stuck in it. but thats ok larry i know you and the snoidiot are like brothers..... gbmfg last i checked the fill plug was a threaded plug. thanks for causing me to chuck my lunch f#$%ing wabbit! bg my 97 dakota has a rubber plug that just pushes into the hole on the differential cover. ken .

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From : denny

i have a 02 dodge 3/4 cummins and the fuel gage reads 1/4 tank and the tank is empty. i bought a new sending unit and lifted the bed of the truck and removed the in tank metering assembly. in looking at the metering lever it looks like the float my have been hanging up. i am trying to replace the sending unit and i cant figure out #1 how to disconnect the sending unit wires from in tank metering assemble plug and #2 how to release the sending unit from the assembly. thank you for any help. .