Help, freeze plug removal.

[66halfcab289]

I just found a bad leak from a freeze plug on the back of the head on my 68' Mustang 289. Do any of you guys have a trick for getting it out, without pulling the head or engine? If I could just get it out, I could put a rubber one back there for the summer.

[66halfcab289]

Yeah, I'll try theres only about 2" to work with no room for tools. I have heard of people drilling a 3/8" hole in the firewall and pulling it out and then sliding a 1/4" extension and socket through and pounding one in then plugging the hole with a plastic plug. But I wanted to get more ideas, and I dont want to drill through the fire wall really, It's to pretty.

[Viperwolf1]

I'd just pull the head and fix it. The cooling system is not something you want to monkey around on with summer coming up. If you don't want to pull the head just pull the motor out. Less bolts and fewer gaskets required.

[Shawns Fords]

The rubber plug is a temporary helper fix to get you home. Ive never had to change a head soft plug in my 67 but have changed a lot of them in blocks. Getting it out isn't the problem, its getting the new one in correctly.

[66halfcab289]

Thanks everybody , I got it out and put a new one in, without pulling the head or engine. I made a 3 ft tool with a point on one side and a wobble extension on the other, and used the pointy side to remove it then the woble side with a socket to replace it. Just had to hammer from under the car and up and over the tranny.

[66halfcab289]

P.S. It turned out the machine shop never replaced the freeze plugs in the head, and that one finnaly rotted out. The engine only has about 300 miles on it, but I pulled out a rust old freeze plug But the work was done a couple hundred mi from here, and over a year ago, so what can you do.

[Entourage]

Sooo glad that it all worked out without taking the motor out or apart. Whew. You must be livin' right or something.

[Jesus_man]

But the work was done a couple hundred mi from here, and over a year ago, so what can you do.

I'd at least make a call...They should know better!