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1. update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Dan Hackney <dhh2c@cms.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:29:16 -0500; I posted several days ago about some leak problems I was having on my '72 B that is just now running again after strip down for engine rebuild and body restoration. I fixed all the brake line leaks.; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00388.html (8,982 bytes)
2. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:40:04 -0800; Did you replace this one yourself recently? Once they've been in there a while they don't usually come loose. I would get a new one -- the old one is probably distorted by now. Don't use any sealant; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00394.html (9,273 bytes)
3. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Dan Hackney <dhh2c@cms.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:36:00 -0500; -- there a The engine was built up by my trusted mechanic. The freeze plug has been in place a few months, but the engine was just recently started for the first time in the past 2 weeks. Don't use; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00397.html (9,595 bytes)
4. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Dan Hackney <dhh2c@cms.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:42:59 -0500; (radiator) so I had the radiator recored and pressure tested, so hopefully this won't be a problem. A new cap is cheap though so why not replace. washer." If it problem. I used new washers. One side; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00398.html (9,392 bytes)
5. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Dan Hackney <dhh2c@cms.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 14:43:54 -0500; (radiator) so I had the radiator recored and pressure tested, so hopefully this won't be a problem. A new cap is cheap though so why not replace. washer." If it problem. I used new washers. One side; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00399.html (9,508 bytes)
6. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: "Rick Brown" <mgrick@mgcars.org.uk>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:24:55 -0500; I wouldn't attempt to reuse the plug - get a new one they are cheap - when you put it in you have to hit it with a hammer to dimple the plug which expands it against the block holding it in place. Ri; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00400.html (9,340 bytes)
7. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Dan Hackney <dhh2c@cms.mail.virginia.edu>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:14:15 -0500; cheap - when which I wouldn't either after this afternoon. I stuck it back in there and it began to seep coolant around the bottom of the plug. Then, the sucker wouldn't come out so I had to drill a; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00406.html (9,035 bytes)
8. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:50:50 -0600; Almost everybody says not to use sealant, but I always did in my MGA engines. I always used the permanently flexible aircraft grade sealant in the little cans. Can be obtained at most Cessna shops an; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00408.html (12,130 bytes)
9. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 07:38:11 -0800; Well, like I said, it should be metal-to-metal. If you want to use some *hard-setting* gasket compound around the rim, on the *outside*, I don't see how that would hurt (well, it might if you let the; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00422.html (9,362 bytes)
10. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:56:41 -0500; In the perfect world, welsh (freeze) plugs in the block are sealed with a tiny bit of permatex and punched into place forever. In the less perfect world in which we live, we find the seats for the p; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00435.html (8,936 bytes)
11. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: "British Sportscar Center" <Lawrie@britcars.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:08:24 -0800; I hope you live somewhere where it nevver gets really, really cold! One of the purposes of freeze plugs (as I'm sure you know) is to be the "weakest link" in the event of the coolant in the block fr; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00439.html (10,600 bytes)
12. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:50:23 -0500; Hi Lawrie, My note said that "one of the leading shops around here" used the epoxy technique. That's not my shop. From what the proprietor said about the epoxy popping loose for disassembly, that the; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00446.html (10,367 bytes)
13. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:38:49 -0600; Guys, for what it's worth, I personally wouldn't want to depend on these plugs giving any protection against a cracked block from ice formation. I've had blocks crack without any movement of the plug; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00447.html (10,403 bytes)
14. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>; Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 08:24:30 -0500; Lawrie is just pulling my leg about my being here in frosty CT while he is enjoying perpetual warmth in sunny CA. He can drive to the ocean for salt water and sand. I can just drive down the street; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00466.html (10,597 bytes)
15. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>; Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:00:26 -0000; 'Welch' plugs. A 'welsh' plug would be a source of leeks ... /// /// mgs@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool ///; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00469.html (8,257 bytes)
16. Re: update: leaky mgb & coolant plug (score: 1): Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>; Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:10:46 -0800; -- Max Heim '66 MGB GHN3L76149 If you're near Mountain View, CA, it's the primer red one with chrome wires /// /// mgs@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool //; /html/mgs/2002-01/msg00527.html (8,375 bytes)

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