I have about a dime sized hole in the side of my engine just above the exhaust manifold and when the engine is running water is come out of it. My engine has also started overheating. Is that where my Freeze Plug Used to be? Single mom on an extremely tight budget. I have the tools and no money at all to pay someone else to fix it from what i have read its something I can do myself I am really handy.
2006-07-16 09:57:27 · 5 answers · asked by Marie B 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
you do have a freeze plug missing. Get a rubber screw in plug from any auto parts store, the rubber freeze plug goes in and as you tighten the screw in it the rubber expands and seals the hole. With luck this will take care of your problems, the freeze plug came out for some reason though, did the car get hot or freeze without anti freeze in it during the winter months? If it got hot enough to blow out the plug then you may have other problems like blown head gasket or a cracked head. If Frozen you'll probably get by with just freeze plugs needing replaced. Be sure to check your antifreeze level, you can buy a tester at the auto parts store or Wal Mart for a couplle bucks, or you can fill the car with 50/50 antifreeze and water to get about the right mixture to prevent freezing and boiling over. Good luck with your repairs.
2006-07-16 10:17:25 · answer #1 · answered by Allen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dime sized hole sounds just about the size that the block drain should be except that the block drain would be under the exhaust manifold. Is it possible that you mean the exhaust pipe instead of the manifold? Hope this helps but I bet it doesn,t.Good luck.
2006-07-16 19:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by Iknowthisone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it may not be a freeze plug...it may be an engine tempurature sending unit (sensor). does your engine/water tempurature gauge indicate that the engine is warming up? if so, and it's reading what it should before this problem started, then it may very well be a freeze plug. also, is the orafice where the water is coming from have screw-threads? if so, that's not a freeze plug.
2006-07-16 17:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, go to the part store and they will give you a piece of rubber with a bolt through it. That goes in the hole.
2006-07-16 17:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by jeff s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, jeff is right on, call a extention plug!!
2006-07-16 17:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by Linda T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋