Listers,
Help!
I may have made a mistake, but I am removing everything from the block to
get it ready for the machine shop (baking and machining).
Directly above the oil filter I have a smashed piece of aluminum (which
always bothered me), I found out by looking in TRF catalog, that this is
just another plug which aparently had a head on it when it was new. Why is
it aluminum?
So in an effort to remove all of the fittings from the block, I drilled into
the aluminum and tried using an exracting tool. The aluminum is so soft,
that the extractor just kept winding in ccw, the plug did not move. I
drilled out the aluminum with a larger bit, being careful not to drill the
block. Now I am stuck with a cicle of soft aluminum in the hole.
What should I do now?
Leave it in and let the baking process get it out, and tell the machine shop
to clean it out for me? What type of thread is this? Pipe thread 1/4" NPT?
or Straight thread 1/2" NF or NC?
Any help would be appreciated.
Wayne Ross
Westport, MA
1973 TR6 (Mallard)
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