 Threaded oil galley plugs, installation after rebuild??? |
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| rezron |
 Jul 17 2005, 04:47 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 327 Joined: 25-December 02 From: Mason City, Iowa Member No.: 10  |
I've got a freshly rebuilt engine and am sure the factory oil galley plugs
did'nt get replaced with threaded plugs. The engine is not installed yet- is there a way to put plugs in yet or is it too late? Is it going to require a teardown and reassembly? Thanks in advance, Rezron |
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| SLITS |
Jul 17 2005, 05:42 PM
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"This Utah shit is HARSH!" Group: Benefactors Posts: 13,602 Joined: 22-February 04 From: SoCal Mountains ... Member No.: 1,696 Region Association: None  |
One method would be to use heavy grease (regular wheel bearing grease) on the end of the drill and a shop vac.
Coat drill bit liberally and drill slow with the shop vac sucking also. Drill a little bit, clean and recoat the drill. Same thing with the tap. The grease should catch most of the shards and the shop vac should suck the remainder. Call this "emergency track repair" method. After drilling and tapping, we would use red loctite on the pipe plug (maybe not necessary). To drill the oil galleries, you would need a gun drill (long mf'er) and be able to index it exactly. We did this on the Datsun blocks (NOT Nissan) for more volume. Cleaning the oil galleries in the block and crank, we used a gun cleaning kit with SS brushes not drills. That said, dissassembly is preferred. |
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rezron Threaded oil galley plugs Jul 17 2005, 04:47 PM
! The ones that usually go are behind the flywheel..... Jul 17 2005, 04:53 PM Tom Perso I'd really say that you're SOL on threadin... Jul 17 2005, 05:00 PM rhodyguy i thought drill and taping was also to really clea... Jul 17 2005, 05:19 PM
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