Freeze plug question

[67Gladiator]

looks like one of the freeze plugs on the back of my '67 327 may be out.
Anyone know where I might find a couple more?
Thanks

[Lugnut]

I imagine that's a pretty common item, not that may different sizes. Prob. get 'em at a NAPA store machine shop or any store where they do engine parts machining.

[miked]

ask and ye shall recieve...

S
66-79
V8 Block Plug Kit (Brass)
910 3800A
$ 7.00

http://www.americanpartsdepot.com/engine.htm

AMERICAN PARTS DEPOT
409 NORTH MAIN STREET
WEST MANCHESTER, OH. 45382
PHONE: (937) 678-7249
FAX: (937) 678-5886 (24 HOURS) orders only
*email: amparts@voyager.net

[67Gladiator]

**** that was quick.
Thanks


Mike -- brooding your price. I'll get back to you on that
Take caer

[miked]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by 67Gladiator:
**** that was quick.
Thanks


Mike -- brooding your price. I'll get back to you on that
Take caer<hr></blockquote>

glad to help, re:$$, no idea where i should be on that so let me know what you think is right.

got the link to the parts from this:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=rambler+327+freeze+plug

[67Gladiator]

Trivial irreverency here, but pretty cool.

I wasn't thinking and wrote a Bad Word on my last post. System automatically *ed it out for me (actually for all you decent folk).
That's really cool.

And thanks for the search tip, Mike

67

[Bob Barry]

Just a thought; that freeze-plug application listed as '66-'79 AMC V-8 sounds like it's designed for the second-generation V-8 (the 290 was introduced in '66) rather than for the first-generation Rambler V-8 family that the 327 belongs to. That company should be able to supply a freeze plug set though; it would be unusual for Rambler to have used an odd-sized freeze-plug.

[rigger]

just a ? are they freez plugs or frost plugs

[67Gladiator]

Rigger - I'm at work, so I don't have the TSM with me, but the term "Freeze Plug" was used by the PO, who said there was one out on the backside of the motor. The manual shows two different sized plugs there, but does not refer to them as Freeze plugs per se. I forget what word it used.
I always thought the two terms meant the same thing, unless one was referring to the freeze plug / petcock valve on the rad. No?

[Don S]

howdy.....Down here in hot country their called freeze plugs 'cause they freeze 'till the block busts, then they pop rite out!!......ds

[chrisnsarah]

On the 327, don't forget the one that's buried under the oil filter mount. Mine rotted out and then started to eat through the oil passage in the cover until a pinhole leak developed.
I think the proper term for freeze plugs are core plugs because when the blocks were cast the holes were used to empty out the casting sand.

[67Gladiator]

Well there's a surprise: TSM uses the decidedly technical term "Plug" to define each of the plugs on the back of the block.

Pleased to make your acqaintance Chris. The truck is from (and remains in) the Santa Cruz Mountains, closer to you than me here in Monterey. It's the same patch of woods that Mike D got his Maximus last week.
I'll make sure and check the plug you're talking about, but the PO seemed pretty sure that the leakage was on the backside, between the block and transmission. I haven't seen it yet because it sounds so bad running with that bad valve that I shut down pretty quick.

Is this going to be repairable with the motor in place, or am I going to have to pull it? (Can you hear the enthusiasm in my voice? I can't either.)

Thanks a lot
67