{"id":348,"date":"2012-09-15T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stude.vonadatech.com\/wp\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2013-02-03T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T15:03:23","slug":"that-freeze-plug-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stude.vonadatech.com\/wp\/that-freeze-plug-again\/","title":{"rendered":"That freeze plug AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

9\/15\/2012<\/h3>\n

Last Saturday was International Drive Your Studebaker Day<\/a>.\u00a0 So I piled the kids and the dog into the car and went off in search of ice cream.\u00a0 On the way noticed a strong smell of antifreeze and stopped to check it out.\u00a0 Steam was pouring out of the back of the engine.\u00a0 The freeze plug of doom was leaking.<\/p>\n

Like any owner of an old car I have a gallon of water in the trunk so I dumped that in and took off.\u00a0 I felt like I was in a Viagra commercial.\u00a0 I got within two miles of home when the plug popped out for real and the remaining coolant gushed out on the road behind me.\u00a0 Game over!<\/p>\n

I pulled into a parking lot and called my insurance company.\u00a0 My coverage includes towing and they quickly had a flatbed on the way.\u00a0 Meanwhile my kids arranged a ride home.\u00a0 1 hour later the Sorry Studebaker was back in my driveway.<\/p>\n

A new freeze plug was a whole 3 dollars.\u00a0 The problem is the work involved to get AT the thing.\u00a0 I will spare you the blow-by-blow.\u00a0 The process was a rerun of the last time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I found the old plug laying on the bell housing.\u00a0 I think I was too gentle pounding this one in.\u00a0 Notice it is not all that flat.<\/p>\n

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Well we are not going to make that mistake again. I got a brass plug and pounded the snot out of it. It is so tight the camera was out of focus.
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\nI hope it holds this time.\u00a0 I am getting real tired of dropping the engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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