[AT] 430V Freeze plug

[Spencer Yost]

True, but they often pop out and save the block if the water jacket freezes. Hence the name stuck. Nothing wrong with it in my book.

Napa did have one proper sized “core plug” and I was able to install this afternoon. Got some farm chores and a Super Bowl so not getting coolant in the tractor today but maybe tomorrow I’ll fill it and take it for spin and get it good and hot.

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> On Feb 2, 2020, at 3:30 PM, Thomas Martin <tmartin at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> Why do people persist in calling them freeze plugs?
> The proper nomenclature is core plugs. Why? Because they close the apertures
> in the cast block, which enable the cores to be removed, after casting.
> That's why wet sleeve engine blocks have none.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>> On 03 February 2020 at 07:46 James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Last weeping freeze plug I had was on the firewall side of a transverse engine. Those antique tractors do not hide the freeze plugs as much. 
>> 
>> Spencer Yost AT List Owner (spencer at rdfarms.com); <snip> So I started on the replacement of the leaking freeze plug last night.   Drained the radiator and the block.   The block was draining heavily rusted water the last few inches <snap> 
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