Galley Plugs, Which ones? Options

[Chad911sc]

While I have my engine out to fix my crank, wanted to do all the things I didn’t do the first time. I want to make sure I do all the galley plugs that are necessary to prevent one popping out and losing my oil pressure. Several posts on this forum say just to do the five, and some other forums say, to do many more. I got the main five out, and they were really in there! It took many pulls on the slide hammer to remove them. Surprisingly enough, my galley’s were spotless! In the bottom 2 pictures, my question is, do I need to remove these smaller ones up by the oil cooler? And also, what about this big one to the bottom right of the oil pump housing? Do these need to be removed and tapped as well?

[Chad911sc]

Since this has happened to me, I’ve called all of my buddies that I’ve made over the past 30 years, and it’s been happening to them as well here in central Florida. I just talked to one of my old friends Bob, who races big block fords and has several cars that he builds the engines for every other year or so. He said he wouldn’t recommend anyone to me because a lot of his work has been suspect lately. He said the last time he had his rods sized, they screwed them up so bad that they were now unusable! I guess it’s just a crap shoot from now on. I am now looking for someone within a couple hours driving distance to balance my rotating assembly. Hopefully I can find someone. I didn’t do it the first time I built it, so I want to do it this time.