From: bashley101@gmail.com   
      
   On 07/09/2020 05:38 AM, synthius2002@yahoo.com wrote:   
   > I won't remember the details clearly by my '70 chevy lost a "freeze   
   > plug" in the winter 'cuz my antifreeze measure was faulty. I do   
   > remember desperately pouring water in, that had ice in it. The   
   > miracle was somebody telling of a shop that would fix it. I drove,   
   > stopping every mile or so when it overheated and poured more water   
   > in. they fixed it just fine and I got to use it for some years   
   > after.   
   >   
   > Now, "freeze plug" is not what it was designed as, it was a lucky   
   > accident from the block casting process.   
      
   Takes me back...   
      
   Four months pregnant and one of mine blew.  Yeah, like we need those in   
   SoCal.  For a while I could use the car by filling it up at home,   
   driving to work, filling it up at work and driving home.  Ultimately I   
   crawled under the 1950 Chevy and replaced the STEEL freeze plug with a   
   brass one.  Fortunately only one went bad.   
      
   It would have killed GM to use brass in the first place?  Do they still   
   use them at all?   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Bev   
       "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other   
        dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry.'"       -Gary Larson   
      
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