The Ford Barn

Dameon Hubbard · 02-15-2024, 11:27 PM

Ah yes. I just replaced the motor (after the last was blowing the blues, pulled and found to have a severely cracked block too!) and after 100 beautiful miles i see my brand new radiator fluid dripping out on the garage floor. A closer inspection showed the drip coming from (yip you guessed it) the welch plug.....yay! So. i did what any "normal" human being would do and poked it. Result? A gusher.
So I have new brass domed 1 1/8" welch plugs in the post. Now....dropping the pan.....
Remove exhaust cross over pipe, pull the starter motor, disconnect radiator, drain the oil. I have new gaskets. Any tricks? I read in a similar post use a couple of locator pins (ex pan bolts sans head).

02-15-2024, 11:27 PM	#1
Dameon Hubbard Member Join Date: Sep 2023 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 77	Dropping the pan - 37 coupe V8-60 - Welch plugs Ah yes. I just replaced the motor (after the last was blowing the blues, pulled and found to have a severely cracked block too!) and after 100 beautiful miles i see my brand new radiator fluid dripping out on the garage floor. A closer inspection showed the drip coming from (yip you guessed it) the welch plug.....yay! So. i did what any "normal" human being would do and poked it. Result? A gusher. So I have new brass domed 1 1/8" welch plugs in the post. Now....dropping the pan..... Remove exhaust cross over pipe, pull the starter motor, disconnect radiator, drain the oil. I have new gaskets. Any tricks? I read in a similar post use a couple of locator pins (ex pan bolts sans head).