Author Topic: when you are drag racing and blow out a freeze plug (not me)  (Read 1114 times)

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Re: when you are drag racing and blow out a freeze plug (not me)
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2024, 02:37:59 PM »
That's what happens when you use the 1-3/4 plugs instead of the 1-49/64 ones

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Re: when you are drag racing and blow out a freeze plug (not me)
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2024, 02:56:42 PM »
You don't know how many engines have left my shop with 1-3/4" freeze plugs.  Never an issue.
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Re: when you are drag racing and blow out a freeze plug (not me)
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2024, 06:18:45 PM »
We can wax poetic all day long about "why" this happened....but it still stinks it happened.
Mostly water as the coolant can be a traction limiter.
When anti-freeze is included that stuff is straight up slippery.....even a stock Yugo would spin a tire with anti-freeze on the road surface.


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Re: when you are drag racing and blow out a freeze plug (not me)
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2024, 07:14:20 AM »
Why so low in the front and high in the rear? Sucks about the freeze plug.