86 5.0L

Today I tore down the front end of my 5.0 to replace the rotted expansion plugs, went to 4 different stores, nobody carries these here finally the girl behind the counter hands me one, I compare it to the old one, looked close enough, get home, use a socket and hammer to drive them in, and realize that they went in way too easy, I check the plastic bag, and it says 1-31/64" and I know 5.0s take 1-1/2 right?

*** my life...

well I just put everything back together and said *** it. Will these plugs do the job or should I explect to be replacing them soon....

turbosha

wow, patience grasshopper. alittle rough on yourself. they have the rubber expandable freeze plugs.i would do that instead of putting a smaller one in.i dont know how easy it went in , most rad. caps for these cars are 16lbs. that would suck to blow that out going down the road.

mjr46

good chance it'll blow out.......most machine shops should stock a freeze plug kit for a 5.0 on the shelf, i KNOW MINE DOES FOR UNDER 20 BUCKS

86 5.0L

great, atleast I practiced....

rmodel65

advance and auto zone etc normally carry a full set of freeze plugs on either the radiator hose etc aisle or in the "Help" sections

make sure to buy brass not steel ones

86 5.0L

freeze plugs arent common at all here, nobody carries them...

and I used steel FML....

88BlueGT

damn no good, no good. You going to replace it now or wait?

86 5.0L

wait till the weather calms down, it was 100+ with like 75% humidity when I did the swap, yeah, it sucked. it was raining with the sun beating down on me, pretty trippy...