[TR] TR Head Freeze Plug

[Bill Brewer]

     Yah, I may pull out the leaking freeze plug and install one of those rubber expandable plugs. The car is at a friend’s house 4 hours away and he is tired of storing it for me. I may just get it ambulatory and drive it home and pull the head again once I get home…

     I’ll try to get a new freeze plug in first.

 

     -Bill Brewer

     Morro Bay, CA

 

From: Jerry Van Vlack [mailto:jerryvv at roadrunner.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 11:54 AM
To: Bill Brewer; Triumphs List
Subject: Re: [TR] TR Head Freeze Plug

 

I think you know the answer but just hoping for a miracle. Pull the head and do it right for piece of mind.

JVV 

 

From: Bill Brewer 

Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 1:10 PM

To: Triumphs List 

Subject: [TR] TR Head Freeze Plug

 

     So I have a 1953 Morgan with an original Standard Vanguard engine. The engine is very similar to a TR3 engine. It recently blew a head gasket and overheated. I had the head resurfaced and bolted it all back together, started it up and discovered that the freeze plug at the back of the head is leaking now. Dang! Wish that I had thought about that before reassembling... On the Morgan the freeze plug is about 10” away from the firewall and not as close as it is on a TR3. I do not want to pull the head again. Any known tricks on how to get the old plug out and the new plug in without removing the head? 

     TIA,

 

     -Bill Brewer

     Morro Bay, CA

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