Final drve drain bolt

Kevin frazier said:

This magnet is smaller than an eeaser. How strong do you think it is? 1/2 pound strength maybe, now crush it with a hammer and see how magnetic it is, the heat caused crushing it also demagnitizes this baby magnet, those gears turn it to powder, but im not a magnet expert so i can only share what I did and I saw come out. Smash one then tell me what these tiny magnets got left

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Tripps said:

Someone here got one apart, and posted on it, but it's not considered something that comes apart

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Koko3052 said:

Just came across this thread and will add my two cents. Had the exact same thing happen this spring to mine. I was determined that I could “fish” the magnet out with a heavy wire. After spending a couple hours of frustration I just pulled the wheel and dismantled the diff. . The reason the magnet wouldn’t come out was because it stuck onto the ring gear. After removing the piece I just used a bolt w/o the magnet and a safety wire to keep it from vibrating loose should it want to. I looked at the case very carefully when I had it apart I saw that it is very thin where the magnet screws in making a ”heli coil” impossible to hold if a person was to screw up the original threads. BE CAREFUL!

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