Urgent!!- Pulling out a freeze plug..??

[93EGY8]

Well last night i was leaving a party and while on my way home i stopped at a stop sign and when i came to a complete stop i noticed smoke coming out of my hood. :bigeek: First thing i did was check my gauges, oil pressure and water temp are fine. Realizing im only about a half mile from my garage i figure i might as well high tale it there and check things out. I pull in, look underneath and sure enough my jeep is spitting anti-freeze out of the freeze plug on the block. :eek::mad: So basically im going back down there now to try and replace the freeze plug but i've never actually done this before, my question is... how do i remove the old one?? any advice would be appreciated.. thanks guys!

Dustin

[05OCsrt-4]

Well last night i was leaving a party and while on my way home i stopped at a stop sign and when i came to a complete stop i noticed smoke coming out of my hood. :bigeek: First thing i did was check my gauges, oil pressure and water temp are fine. Realizing im only about a half mile from my garage i figure i might as well high tale it there and check things out. I pull in, look underneath and sure enough my jeep is spitting anti-freeze out of the freeze plug on the block. :eek::mad: So basically im going back down there now to try and replace the freeze plug but i've never actually done this before, my question is... how do i remove the old one?? any advice would be appreciated.. thanks guys!

Dustin

very carefully, its hard to explain, HAVE SOMEONE HELP YOU that has done it before so it doesn't accidently get knocked into the engine block

[93EGY8]

i know to be careful, i have put them IN before..just never taken them OUT lol.. like maybe give me some pointers?? how did you go about it??

[05OCsrt-4]

i know to be careful, i have put them IN before..just never taken them OUT lol.. like maybe give me some pointers?? how did you go about it??

i usually use a screwdriver to poke a hole in them, the ether use a hook tool or the screw driver to dry them out, sometimes you can get lucky and hit the one side of them and have them spin in there, but its risky

[93EGY8]

yea i was thinking about drilling through the center of it, then using my hooked screwdriver to pull it out..but im thinking metal shavings would go inside it.. if i try to bang a screwdriver through the center of it, will i risk it just pushing all the way through??

[RyanG]

put grease on your drill bit and go slow.. the grease will catch the metal shavings

[93EGY8]

put grease on your drill bit and go slow.. the grease will catch the metal shavings

same exact thing my old man just told me! lol.. going down there to attempt it now.. ill give an update later on today when its finished. Thanks again to 05OCsrt4 and AREA1320! you guys have been alot of help

[93EGY8]

got all of them out, everything was good.. thanks again for all the help guys!

[99SL2_Modder]

This is why I loved my old 99.

No freeze plug problems could ever develop.