dvst8r
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I, as have many here, blown out the rear freeze plug and the side freeze plugs, and the head freeze plugs. However this was a new one for me tonight.
I was in a friend of mines truck, and we were doing some tuning at the end of the pass it was noticed that we were loosing water, so we shut it down to investigate. There was a fair bit of water sprayed under the hood, but we couldn't see where it was leaking from and so we tried to fill it. At first it looked like the water pump was leaking. We pulled the pump no issue there, tried to fill it again and realized it was coming from behind the fan idler pulley (truck has an electric fan). We pulled the idler pulley to discover that front frost plug (or freeze plug, or expansion plug) had popped out (kind of pivoting at the point it made contact with the idler bracket) obviously allowing the water out unimpeded. he has the billet side and rear plugs, his head is tapped and it has the thread in dr. p style plugs in it. Water pump is clipped, and we saw about 4500rpm.
What say you compd, have any of you popped that plug?
My buddy is debating cutting another blade off of the pump or going to an electric one, also sounds like he going to try and locktite + peen the replacement one in there.
Obviously doesn't seem to be super common, as I didn't come up with much on the search. Nor does there seem to be a product out there designed to fix this.
I was in a friend of mines truck, and we were doing some tuning at the end of the pass it was noticed that we were loosing water, so we shut it down to investigate. There was a fair bit of water sprayed under the hood, but we couldn't see where it was leaking from and so we tried to fill it. At first it looked like the water pump was leaking. We pulled the pump no issue there, tried to fill it again and realized it was coming from behind the fan idler pulley (truck has an electric fan). We pulled the idler pulley to discover that front frost plug (or freeze plug, or expansion plug) had popped out (kind of pivoting at the point it made contact with the idler bracket) obviously allowing the water out unimpeded. he has the billet side and rear plugs, his head is tapped and it has the thread in dr. p style plugs in it. Water pump is clipped, and we saw about 4500rpm.
What say you compd, have any of you popped that plug?
My buddy is debating cutting another blade off of the pump or going to an electric one, also sounds like he going to try and locktite + peen the replacement one in there.
Obviously doesn't seem to be super common, as I didn't come up with much on the search. Nor does there seem to be a product out there designed to fix this.
