Reply to Old Magnet:
Bubble check is just with the radiator cap neck full.
Depending on your s/n there is another plug (npt) on the same pipe as the drain valve, might try opening that one but they usually are just about frozen up.
Had a look at the drain fitting on one in the herd yesterday. There is pipe plug in the same area as the other drain maybe in the same casting. But the normally used drain is the lower stainless steel 9/16 hex. As it is lower may be hard to see looking around the hard nose. There is a 1 inch or so whole in the hard nose to put a socket on about a 12 in extension.Extension will be at a 45 degree angle to hard nose. May have to raise blade to get ram out of the way. Have never had this drain not come loose on any of them using a long 1/2 in breaker bar. This drain is the lowest point in the system and would get more out than the pipe plug about 3 in higher.
Many things rust up on the old girls,the last one I got into had rust everywhere but this drain came loose. This D6 was retired in 1985 with goverment program to retire farm land. It did one day a year of fire breaks until steering clutch rusted up and would not release. Then it rested until 2013 when owners widow didn't want the barn to fall on it.
I could not find anything about this plug in the engine service manual. But operation and maintenance instruction book dose have a picture on page 68 and his hand is in the way to see the upper pipe plug. Good luck getting it cleaned out.