Hardened steel plugs can sometimes be a bear, and try to chew up eze-outs. When that happens, hit the hole you drilled with a tapered reamer to get better bite. Sometimes that's just enough to allow using the bigger tool, which is stronger.
wow!!!, I forgot all about freeze out plugs. I blew a freeze plug on my 64 Pontiac Bonneville, lucky for me I was young and able to replace it while still in the car.
I had a freeze plug rust through in an old Charger. It was one of the hardest and most frustrating repairs I have ever done. Today, I would just pull the engine!
There is an easier way to remove the freeze plugs. I seen you have a battery operated hand drill. You can use a self tapping screw or bolt to screw into the plug, than with a crowbar on the screw or bolt head, you can pull the plug out. Just like pulling a nail out of a board. The three plugs on the rear of the block by the cam shaft rear seal should be threaded plugs with a 1/4 inch square drive fittings. So you can unscrew them with a 1/4 inch drive breaker bar. Or it will be a hex fitting for a 1/4 or 5/16 ellon wrench.
Oh my goodness my look using a Halo pushrod to drive something it would have mushroomed and gotten stuck in there but this is why machine shop work cost so much countless hours goes into just getting one ready
I lot of people just don't realize how much work is involved just to get the block ready for hot tanking. Not to mention installing the freeze plugs, cam bearings, boring and etc. A good machine shop is priceless.
Buddy is rebuilding an old motor on a worn out table in a dirt lot. Doesn't get more America than that!! Love it
and using a carpenters hammer, ive never seen a chisel like that though, must be for some other occupation though.
All the right steps for a quality rebuild! Get all those passages clean so they can do their job.
Thanks. I hope that the engine will clean up nice!
Thanks a lot, I hit my cap once and it turned in immediately lol, didn't think of that yet.
Hardened steel plugs can sometimes be a bear, and try to chew up eze-outs. When that happens, hit the hole you drilled with a tapered reamer to get better bite. Sometimes that's just enough to allow using the bigger tool, which is stronger.
wow!!!, I forgot all about freeze out plugs. I blew a freeze plug on my 64 Pontiac Bonneville, lucky for me I was young and able to replace it while still in the car.
I had a freeze plug rust through in an old Charger. It was one of the hardest and most frustrating repairs I have ever done. Today, I would just pull the engine!
If the plug under the rear main cap is NOT reinstalled will there be any oil pressure at the gauge on the dash?
Yes, there will be oil pressure, but the oil will bypass the oilfilter and your engine will take damage eventually from all the unfiltered oil.
What the point of taking out the old galley plugs? I'm sure it will be fine just reusing them.
@@thomasbrown336 I removed them for hot tanking.
There is an easier way to remove the freeze plugs. I seen you have a battery operated hand drill. You can use a self tapping screw or bolt to screw into the plug, than with a crowbar on the screw or bolt head, you can pull the plug out. Just like pulling a nail out of a board.
The three plugs on the rear of the block by the cam shaft rear seal should be threaded plugs with a 1/4 inch square drive fittings. So you can unscrew them with a 1/4 inch drive breaker bar. Or it will be a hex fitting for a 1/4 or 5/16 ellon wrench.
Thank you for your input.
Ellon wrench?
do i hear cicada's?
Oh my goodness my look using a Halo pushrod to drive something it would have mushroomed and gotten stuck in there but this is why machine shop work cost so much countless hours goes into just getting one ready
I lot of people just don't realize how much work is involved just to get the block ready for hot tanking. Not to mention installing the freeze plugs, cam bearings, boring and etc. A good machine shop is priceless.
@@homesteadprepper oh yeah cleaned up some heads relap the valves put new umbrellas in took me two weeks every night a couple hours