Freezing temperatures - water in engine

nothingbutdarts said
Ding ding ding, I have a 69 340 Swinger that occasionally I would street race it in the late 70's, well one night it put a pushrod thru the rocker arm, I limped it home & let it sit in the garage & forgot about it. It had only water in it (OHIO) Like mentioned above they crack in the lifter galley. I still kick myself to this day for not having A/F in it!

I`ve posted this before , but, back in the day , I drained the water out of my hemi superstock type belvedere , and forgot about draining the block, next spring I filled it up and started it for a check over, set the valves and such, the block had split on the right side between the so called freeze plugs . Yanked her out and spent my vacation metal locking the cracks (2 of them) .

looked like it was welded when I finished , that block is still running and not leaking to this day , altho I dont own it anymore . wish i did !