I had the same problem with a 95 Contour, so i got angry and grabbed a pair of vice grips and slowly took it off that way, that way worked great! too many plastic parts on them contours tho.... if use the vice grip method, and your radiator drain plug is plastic like mine, dont put the vice grips too tight...

Former owner of a 1995 Ford Contour GL w/ 2.0L ATX Proud owner of a 2005 Ford Taurus SE 3.0L V6 Vulcan --Looking for Commodore stuff (Drives, Units, Amiga, games, etc)If anyone has any of this laying around and wants it gone, lemme know --