Re: alfa-digest V8 #52 - GTV-6 drain plug?

[Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>]

Thanks, Russ---I think I'll pass on installing them!--I'm using 50/50
distilled water and antifreeze anyway.


--- AlfaNeely@domain.elided wrote:
> In a message dated 09/15/2001 8:24:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:
> 
> 
> > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 17:55:50 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Alan Lambert <lechefgerard@domain.elided>
> > Subject: GTV-6 drain plug?
> > 
> > Hi all---I've perused the car and the CarDisk, but I can't find
> where a
> > block drain plug might be. I ask because I want to insert a
> magnesium
> > anode while the car's partially apart.
> > 
> > Anybody know?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > alan
> > 
> > 
> 
>        The Milano has a pair of them.  Look under the exhaust
> manifold 
> approximately below cylinder number three.  There should be a brass
> plug, one 
> on each side.  The passenger side may be behind the starter.
>        I put a pair of the sacrificial anodes in my Milano when I
> overhauled 
> it about 1994.  I later removed them to flush the antifreeze or
> change the 
> water pump or both.  The sacrificial stuff was sacrificed all right. 
> It was 
> also right there at the bottom of the water jacket partly plugging
> the hole.
>        I do not think I will ever buy another set of these anode
> things.  
> Better to just keep fresh antifreeze in the engine, me thinks...
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> Russ Neely
> Oklahoma City
> 
> 


=====
Best Regards,

Alan Lambert

__________________________________________________
Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help?
Donate cash, emergency relief information
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/

--
to be removed from alfa, see /bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to majordomo@domain.elided