Body Drain Plug Removal

[zerfetzen]

I've gotten a few out, a couple were easy, some others I had to struggle with.  Is there an easy method to removing body drain plugs?  Thanks.

[zerfetzen]

Nix this thread, I figured out a great method and removed about 20 of them in about 5 minutes.

[john108]

And.....
Your secret is??

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Good point, let me share for the future posterity of thread searchers:

I took all of my body plugs out from the inside, and most were pushed inside-out.  The technique that seemed to work for me was this:

1.  Grab your scraper and scrape underneath the lip of the plug, all the way around, pushing in as much as you can toward the center, just to loosed up the rubber.
2.  With your scraper still wedged under the lip somewhere, grab a knife with your other hand, and slide wedge that in between the metal and lip.  Force it in and pierce the rubber.
3.  With the rubber pierced, remove the knife and push on it with your scraper, which should continue with the rip, and push in a direction so that it will follow the rim.
4.  Now you can pull back part of the lip and push it down through the body to the floor.

There were a few exceptions to this rule, such as two plugs underneath the back seat that, if pushed through, will end up inside the frame rails.  For these, you can destroy some of the outer lip, then grab pliers, and wrestle a little to pull it toward you.

Someone else may have another method, but this worked well for me.

[hemi-hampton]

Ram a screwdriver right threw the middle of it & then pry up

[zerfetzen]

Ram a screwdriver right threw the middle of it & then pry up

Hi hemi-hampton,
I tried that too and maybe my prying wasn't up to snuff, but had an easier time the other way.  Whatever works right? 

[tan top]

 you can warm the original ones up a little with a hot air gun & either push it out from the bottem up , or pry it up with a screw driver ,