- 1. Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:32:27 -0800
- Hi all you iron stock blockers out there. Do we still strap across the plugs to keep them from failing catastrophically or has a new idea come along? Jim in Palmdale, where it didn't rain a drop
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00330.html (7,416 bytes)
- 2. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:31:51 -0500
- I have not seen one fall out since about 1968 the day I started putting them in with loctite and everything clean and dry. Oh yea use a socket or piece of round stock that just fits inside if it is a
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00331.html (7,712 bytes)
- 3. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:04:43 -0800
- Sounds good to me Dave, I knew there must be a newer way to do it.
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00332.html (8,133 bytes)
- 4. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris R Harris" <yesford@clear.net.nz>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:05:58 +1300
- Talking about welch plugs, I owned an imported Mustang some years ago and one of the plugs was a block coolant heater with a 110 v plug on it. Are these readily available as they sound like the deal
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00333.html (8,388 bytes)
- 5. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:28:51 -0500
- either the ford dealer or probably NAPA.... Dave Dahlgren
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00334.html (8,675 bytes)
- 6. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Skip & Joyce Higginbotham <saltrat@pro-blend.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:36:54 -0600
- I use the rubber ones that expand into the hole with a wrench. Or epoxy the cup kind in. Both seem to work. Skip H
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00335.html (7,706 bytes)
- 7. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: "caro" <pampers@videotron.ca>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:56:06 -0500
- It`s called a block heather... they were made so that the engien will start well in our canadian winters... most part store and dealers have acces to them Denis.
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00343.html (7,352 bytes)
- 8. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:57:03 -0800 (PST)
- "Bout three years ago I had a big block Mopar drag car. I wasn't paying attention when I put on pullys and ended up with a super high speed water pump that must have been putting out 1000 PSI (ha ha)
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00439.html (8,255 bytes)
- 9. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:23:20 -0500
- Reminds me of the time I setup the oxyacetylene torch with bothering with the regulators.. The lines kept blowing out and setting the shop on fire. I installed a halon system in the garage so that wh
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00440.html (9,160 bytes)
- 10. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: FastmetalBDF@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:46:42 EST
- Dave : Wow ! I never even gave a thought to welding ( oxy - acetylene ) WITHOUT the regulators ...... I guess you proved it could be done ...... with the resultant NEGATIVE results ! I did, however,
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00442.html (9,257 bytes)
- 11. Re: Freeze/Welch plugs (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:12:21 -0500
- Had a rear one blow out on me in 1991 while running from the 4 to 5 mile markers. Filled the car with steam...instant blindness at over 200 MPH, and that was the good part. Fire suits don't offer ANY
- /html/land-speed/2000-12/msg00472.html (8,642 bytes)
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