Can anyone help ?? Called my mechanic today to make arrangements to have the wheel bearings replaced on the rear drivers side and he tells me I am going to need a freeze plug. Anyone have one to sell me ?? Or know of where I can find one ?? Haven't searched yet, thought I would start here.
67 Bus: Need a Freeze Plug
Jun 05, 2004
8 Replies
...eh??? Feeze plugs are items designed to be pushed out of the block of a water cooled car when the water freeazes so as not to crack the bluck...anywho in reality they are plugs foir the passageways machined in the block...while the VW has clugs pressed into the ooil galleys,I haven't ever heard them reffered to as freeze plugs, and never really seen one come out on its own accord..they are removed to clean the galleys when building an engine, and the remaiing holes tapped and pluigged. This freeze plug you menation does not compute. Please identify the location of said plug.
...Gareth
Maybe I mis-heard or remembered .. He said that there is a plug - something that has to be replaced when the wheel bearings are replaced ... DAMN .. I guess I should call him again .. He has to pull this or that to get to the wheel bearings and this "plug" is known to leak gear oil.
Diane
Yes, it looks exactly like a watercooled "freeze plug"; of course this one would be metric sized.
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lists a reduction box plug: P/N 211 501 249
Speedy Jim
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...my bad...forgot the subject at hand, and been a while since I climbed under a redux box....the term freeze plug automajickally threw my mind to thinkin about the engine.....
...Gareth
I see front bearing and seal kit, but not the rear. Diane
Would this be it ??
Reduction Box Bearing Kit
Does one side(4 Bearings, Seals & Gaskets), 64-67 Bus
Diane
Well, you may need them too. Plug the P/N I gave you into the SEARCH field on the web site (without any spaces). Jim
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