Joe Curry wrote:
>
> TRIPHSTEVE@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello list:
> >
> > I need your help.
> >
> > I am restoring a TR 250. I decided to degrease and clean the engine,
> renew
> > the gaskets, replace the freeze plugs and repaint the engine. The
> freeze
> > plugs are the problem.
> >
> > While knocking out the freeze plugs, one of them was knocked inside
> the
> > engine water jacket. I have tried to get it out and probably can do
> so, but
> > it will take a significant expenditure of time. My question is: will
> the
> > floating freeze plug create a problem with water flow? Any other
> problem with
> > leaving it in the water jacket?
> >
> > Many thanks for your help in advance.
> >
>
> Steve,
> With that impressive list of autos, surely you didn't expect anything
> but the obvious. Maybe it's just a hope you would get a different
> answer. Perhaps you will. But not from me. For my money, I don't
> want
> anything larger than a rust flake running around in my cooling system.
> So go ahead and expend whatever time is necessary to get it out of
> there.
>
> Regards,
> Joe Curry '63 Spit etal.
I will have to second Joe's advice. There is no need to further
restrict coolant than to have a large foreign body in the water jacket.
Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4
Houston
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