FW: [Chrysler300] Freeze plug for F

["'Jean-Yves' jymopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]" <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Jean-Yves [mailto:jymopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: May-25-14 1:36 PM
To: 'Gloria Moon'
Subject: RE: [Chrysler300] Freeze plug for F

 

Thanks to all who responded with help, I did find the info I was looking
for...I had a printed version from 2010.time goes by too fast!

I do have brass plugs on my block right now, two came off since the rebuilt,
one on the dyno run and the second one yesterday on the road.not punched in
enough?

I will replace them with the Hot Heads stainless plug kit.

Great Club!

J.Yves

 

From: Gloria Moon [mailto:agmoon@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: May-25-14 12:59 PM
To: Jean-Yves
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Freeze plug for F

 

Hi Jean-Yves,

 

You might try 2 things.  Try the regular dished freeze plugs but in brass
(use a good amount of hard setting Permatex on the lip) or some time ago
there was the type that you wrote about.  It had a hex bolt that drew the
plug up tight using leverage from the inside where it had 2 tangs to grab
the block (like dry wall picture hangers do today.  There is another type
that didn't have the "fingers" that grabbed inside the back.  It just sealed
by squeezing the rubber plug by cranking the hex nut and compressing the
plug.  These were invented for use where you can't get a  swing with a
hammer to dent-in the regular ones.  I used one of this type once because of
this. The plug never gave me any problem after that.

 

A good parts house with an older guy working there should know about this
style.

 

I never used the cup type because they are so thin and I never trusted them
because of the way that they are made.

 

Good luck!

 

Dorman still makes them (Advance Auto Parts sells them here around us, look
on the Internet and you'll find some.)  If not I can bring some with me to
Mystic.  These are partly rubber and will seal and won't blow out but they
are still rubber but as I said the one I used lasted for many years and
never failed.  Just keep your anti-freeze changed regularly.

 

You are still coming to Mystic aren't you?

 

Didn't you have some ram choke pots at one time?  If you still have any,
please bring 2 with you to Mystic.  I need good ones for my F.

 

Thanks again.

 

Hope to see you again there!  Maybe we can find another good steak house
like we did at Carlisle last year.

 

Allan & Gloria

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: 'Jean-Yves' jymopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [Chrysler300]
<mailto:jymopar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%20[Chrysler300]>  

To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 10:56 AM

Subject: [Chrysler300] Freeze plug for F

 

  

Is there a replacement expansion plug ( freeze plug) for RB blocks that
would be more reliable than those dish type welsh plugs?

I thought someone a few months ago posted something about a plug that has
some kind of mechanical holder built in the plug, grabs the inside of the
block like a block heater plug maybe?? 

I was road testing my F , one plug came off while passing a vehicle at
80mph...makes quite a big cloud of white smoke!

J.Y. 





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