Well I am new to the forum. Just had to get my 99 Jeep Cherokee towed for what the mechanic has advised is a broken freeze plug. The parts seem cheap enough. Just wondering about the labor. I was quoted 5hrs. Does that sound about right?

Thanks.

 

Depends which one it is. I had one push out on a car I bought and had to pull the engine to get to it (back of the head).

 

When I bought mine from a dealer used. I didn't check the radiator till I went to flush it in the fall. It was full of bars leak. I flushed it, and the freeze plug under the exhaust manifold started to ****. The only way to replace it is to take off the manifold. I put one of the rubber expandable ones in. That was seven years ago, and I do flush it every fall. It took three years to get most of the bars leak out. Now I have either a wrist pin, or piston going bad slowly. When it goes I guess the core is going back with the rubber freeze plug.

 

rubber?

I tried a road side fix with a bilge plug once and the heat killed it; although it did get me home and around for a few days. I've since fixed it with the correct OE replacement but what did you use exactly? Might come in handy if that ever happens again.

 

Well thanks for the info. Your posts are consistent with what the mechanic did. He cleaned some "sludge" and I'm assuming he replaced it with a metal one since that is what he took off. Amazing how a small part can cause such grief.

 

I got a rubber freeze plug replacement at the auto parts store. They have a lot of different sizes. Must be a different rubber compound, because it is still in there.