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Usually you'll have some leaking around the plug... get a flexible necked mirror and a flashlight and look around it for leaking cooolant.
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Will a bad freeze plug prevent car from starting?
A bad freeze plug will leak coolant and cause the engine to overheat.
How do i change the freeze plug on driver's side on a 2.8 v6 engine on a 1988 ford bronco 2 xlt?
Locate the bad freeze plug and remove parts that impede the facilitation of reaching the plug. Take a screwdriver and hammer out the old plug. Replace the plug with either a regular plug (a socket that fits the inside of the freeze plug helps) or a rubber expanding freeze plug.
Where is the engine freeze plug?
Need to know the engine size so we can tell you correctly.
Where is the freeze plug on a 96 olds bravada?
There are 8 freeze plugs. If you have a bad one it's where the coolant is leaking from the engine block or a cylinder head, .
1994 Honda Accord freeze out plug?
no such thing,freeze in plug
What happens when a freeze plug goes bad?
Freeze plugs are designed to try to save the engine block if your anti freeze isn't strong enough. When you put straight water in your radiator, and the temp gets below freezing, the water freezes, and the freeze plug is supposed to pop out. If your freeze plug popped out, but had adequate antifreeze, it wasn't installed properly--There are usually 6 to 8 plugs on the block/heads
How can you tell if you need a new freeze plug on a Lincoln Town Car?
If it is leaking around the old one.
What is a better type of freeze plug?
The steel freeze plug is better than a brass freeze plug. This is because the steel freeze plug can withstand high temperature from the engine block. Moreover, the steel freeze plugs usually fit very well.
What is the best freeze plug rubber or the brass freeze plug?
Steel or brass freeze plugs are the best ones,rubber freeze plugs are just for temporary
Freeze plug 1997 Ford Escort?
how many freeze plug at 1997 ford escort
How do you replace a freeze plug in a 1995 Ford Aerostar?
take a large screw driver and a hammer tap the old freeze plug in the block,replace it with a rubber freeze plug.tighten the rubber freeze plug with a wrench..the metal freeze plug that you pushed inside the block will not hurt anything..hope this helps!!!!
Leak in your block on drivers side of 4.3 l s10?
a piston has gone thru it or u have a bad freeze plug
