Re: AWOL radiator drain plug

If you're really lucky your local parts guy will have a solid brass 
replacement for the plastic part...

"Scott Buchanan" <t120rv@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>I had one let go while waiting at a red light on a '93 Grand Prix. This
was
> a good place for it to happen because I saw the steam and was able to
get
> off the road before any damage was done. The plastic "PLUG" simply
broke. 
> I
> was able to pick up the pieces off the road. Fortunately I was on a bus
> route and NAPA had the part. With my trusty Leatherman, I was able to
get
> the reaming part out of the drain hole. I was back on the road in an
hour.
> Seems to me I had to replace the part many years ago.
>
>
> <clare at snyder.on.ca> wrote in message
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>> Anyone ever have the rad drain plug spontaneously let go?
>> 1994 TransS****t 3.8
>> Has had nothing done to the rad/drain plug/coolant for over a year,
>> and it dumped all the antifreeze about 75 miles from home yesterday.
>> The plug appears to be missing. I filled the hole with expanding
>> uerethanr foam (spray) to keep the new antifreeze in long enough to
>> get home. In to the shop tomorrow to find out if it fell out or broke
>> off.
>> With no parts suppliers near by, it's good that I'm well aquainted
>> with "non-traditional repair methods", AKA the "ZamFix" from my years
>> in Africa!!.
>>
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