ryanleiker

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This is why you thoroughly check your junkyard motor, even after a hot tank and rebuild.
Paraffin wax? Dried up stop-leak? Idk, but there was about 6 inches of this stuff right behind the front oil galley freeze plug blocking all oil flow back to the filter. Had to dig/drill it all out. Found my oil pressure issue.

Paul Bell

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YES, those are oil passages.

I'm thinking that the engine saw a lot of Lucas synthetic oil stabilizer.

http://lucasoil.com/products/engine-...oil-stabilizer

JRENIGAR

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Holy ****! Im gonna go check mine rite now. Thanks.

KCS

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How did you get the front plug out?

ryanleiker

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Take a small flat bladed screwdriver and tap on the bottom of the freeze plug until it rotates towards you in the bore. Then I used larger flat screwdrivers and slowly pried it out of the bore.
I tapped on the recessed part of the plug, not the edge that pushes against the bore.
I had pretty good luck in keeping it in original form, so I actually just tapped it back in once I was done.

KCS

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That's the first I've ever heard someone doing it that way. I use a long metal rod and go in from the back (check the tape!).

Paul Bell

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That's another way to do it!

I drilled a hole in it, turned in a screw then yanked on the screw.

ryanleiker

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That's how I used to do it until I read about this way.