5 Freeze Plugs Missing

[Maclin]

The new VP and Mercs are closed cooling standard, all aluminum blocks and heads now. I think.

 

[hoowahfun]

The difference in cost to thread and then plug a hole rather than just put a plug in it would be expensive. When you make a million of each block even if it was only a $1 difference it would end up costing you a million dollars more. We know it would cost way more than that. That is the reason they don't thread and plug it. This is just the cheapest way to make them not protect them.

I was thinking the exact same thing. The extra cost to thread the hole and provide a threaded plug would not be worth it. You could stamp out millions of brass plugs at a fraction of the cost for threaded ones.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Went to WM yesterday and bought a new "Hose Pipe".

only if your from the UK

 

[andrewterri]

I had a rare lucky engine. Boat I bought and posted about around a month ago had a freeze plug pop out. 27 hours on the engine. Stealership put new plug in and luckily no cracks. They ran the boat for an hour and I ran on the lake for an hour without any milky oil. It's rare but it happens.

 

[kenny nunez]

The Fords must be made from a better cast iron. One year there was a freeze down here and I replaced 15 Chevys and just reinstalled a few core plugs on some Fords and of course a lot of manifolds on all of them.

 

[scoflaw]

Heard it was higher nickel content....AMC's same deal