Heil Harvesting, Ulysses KS/Limon CO | EDIT: The freeze plug was pushed out into the engine valley. When I was washing I discovered it on the ground. No signs of being pulled. Paint still in tact, very strait. I am assuming pushed out...
I bought a used engine that had had compression run on it. Compression tested good, approximately 12% difference between the high and the low.
I started washing on the engine today. It has a new water pump on it, about right for the engine with 2500 hrs. As I am washing I find a freeze plug.
I have a couple theories on this, anybody who has input it would be appreciated.
1. The water pump went out and engine got hot and pushed the plug out. I have never seen this before but view it as possible.
or,
2. The engine has been frozen (which pushed the plug out), they put a new water pump on and learned it had bigger issues and condemned the machine at that point.
OR???
I am going to fill it with water tonight and and see if it disappears. Then I guess we will find some way to run it (really not a huge deal but I really don't want to go to all the effort for a bad engine). I don't know if the injection equipment is good or bad, so it may take quite a bit of effort to make the engine run. Without a stand I will have to come up with some sort of a radiator/fan set up.
Anyone have any ideas?
Edited by beh 4/10/2011 22:35
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EDIT: Engine freeze plugs/soft plugs: Engine experts
