rtroutman69

Hey ya'll. Any weird reason for blowing out a freeze plug? All I did was install my HX35 and play with the fuel screw and AFC. It scared me a bit because I had just used up my fire extinguisher on a grill fire and when the smoke started coming up thru the 4wd shifter boot, I knew that I didn't have anything for flames. Luckily only a green lake under the truck. The plug was a rubber type. Looks like it fell apart. Thanks for any responses

Riflemanusmc

I'm surprised that no one has posted to this yet...Sounds like a common plug that you would get from a parts house....Dorman comes to mind....

Richie O

Those rubber plugs are not the best thing. I had a buddy with a 440 and he popped them out all the time. Ended up putting steel ones back in. High rpm's will even pop them out. Some high rpm guys take half the impellar blades off the water pump or run a electric water pump.

wannadiesel

Sounds like it was the block heater.

Riflemanusmc

Nope..They have an O ring...And the poster said nothing about it being the block heater...........He said freeze plug. Not block heater.................