In message Sat, 25 May 1996 10:24:10 -0500,
"Ignacio A. Henao" <ihenao@sigma.eafit.edu.co> writes:
> Can someone help me with how are the core plugs in a TD XPEG engine
> installed? My car is missing the small one in the right side of the
> engine, left of the water drainig tap. It appears as if the former owner,
> twenty years ago, had replaced the plug with a thick coat of some sturdy
> adhesive, that has now cracked and was leaking water. Now it is all gone
> and there are two big gaping holes.
>
> Ignacio
>
Hi:
You have a problem. If one or two core plugs have fallen out, the others
may be close to doing the same. If this happens while you are driving and
you do not notice the temperature increase, you may distroy your engine.
After so 30 years of rebuilding XPAG/EG engines, I suggest you replace all
the core plugs. The technique is to drive a screw driver through the old
core plug and pry it out. Clean the shoulder in the block and then coat the
shoulder/sealing surface of the block with Permatex. Insert the core plug
in place, place a pall-peen hammer (large end) against the center of the
core plug and hit the other end of the hammer with a second hammer. The
object is to partially flatten the core plug, so that it expands into the
recess.
If you do not have replacement core plugs, I stock them and all other T type
parts at discount prices.
Good luck.
Blair
1950 & 1953 TDs.
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