• Hi Guest!
    You can help ensure that British Car Forum (BCF) continues to provide a great place to engage in the British car hobby! If you find BCF a beneficial community, please consider supporting our efforts with a subscription.
    There are some perks with a member upgrade!
    **Upgrade Now**
    (PS: Subscribers don't see this gawd-aweful banner
Tips
Tips

Viva GT show and tell - and a question

Share this page

JPSmit

JPSmit

Moderator
Staff member
Silver
Country flag
Online
Got the block back from the shop - bored 30thou over, decked and polished crank. Tasty! Question though. He didn't pop the frost plugs (I didn't ask) but they look fine. I do have another set but am inclined to leave them as is - what do you think?

cheers!

2012-10-27_13-47-46_934.jpg


2012-10-27_13-46-30_240.jpg


2012-10-27_13-46-00_481.jpg
 
Block was "boiled" I'll assume. If you have a set of new ones, CHANGE the silly things now, JP. Much easier than finding out one has been corroded ~just~ enough to spring a pin-hole leak after it's all back in the car!

Clean the I.D. of each hole well and apply a *thin* film of Aviation Form-a-Gasket to the mating surfaces when seating the new ones.
 
And be prepared to clean all sorts of gunk out from behind said plugs.
Me?
I'd have the block on a stand, pressurized garden hose with a trigger nozzle to blow the crXp out, with the block upside down so it all runs out the water ports.

Not sure I'd trust a machine shop that tanked a block without pulling all the plugs......including any galley oil line plugs. Get those out, use some spray carb cleaner and a bore brush.
Dave
 
TOC said:
Not sure I'd trust a machine shop that tanked a block without pulling all the plugs.
Click to expand...

Thinking the same. But they should come out, regardless.
 
Don't go back to that shop, and most assuredly change those plugs.
 
Back
Top