GEN 2 GEN2 Oil Drain Plug Valve

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I have had those type of skid plates on my GEN1, with the access door (RCI) and just a opening (HeftyWorks) and with either the oil still never came out just in the opening. Most of the time oil got on the top of the skid plate and some techs would clean up the mess and some didn't. I ended up just taking off the skid plate for oil changes, didn't want to mess with that anymore.

My comment was not about hitting/banging it with road obstacles. I will have a skid plate so near impossible. And even if I didn't have the factory skid plate, it would have to be one hell of hit to be that high. My questions was about how much the truck moves around, rattles over certain terrain, jumps, etc that if the lever would ever move and open up.
I don't think you could ever get the lever to move from 4 wheeling and banging around, is what I meant. You have to give it a pretty good push against a spring, then rotate it a quarter turn, to get oil to come out. Even more safe with the secondary plastic clip. The clip was accidentally not included with mine, Fumoto sent it when I asked. I asked the customer rep if it was safe to run it without the clip, she laughed and asked if I had tried moving the lever yet to see how stiff it is, and said it's definitely safe without the clip.
 

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I have the foutz skid plates and fumoto drain plug. works fine as long as the oil is hot when draining. It would take a lot to have it open up accidentally but I was in Wyoming with you last year!!!
 

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Foutz makes a diff cover as well
 

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