Discrepancies in information on LA and Magnum series oil gallery plugs

Kern Dog said
When confronted with a question that you cannot answer, you respond like this? Have you considered working in politics?
This engine never had the plugs, the bearings were fine when I tore it down a few months back so if there were a problem, it sure didn't show any sign of it. I started the thread to learn why some came with the plugs while others did not.
You clearly don't know.
I don't either but I don't go by the screen name Kern Dog Engine Builder.
For the others here that actually know the answer......If the galleries are blocked off with plugs, why does my thrust plate have this design?

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I ask because I don't know. I'm trying to understand the logic. A blocked off gallery passage would flow nothing so what point would there be to the recess on the left side of the plate?

I do not know why your plate has that relief in it. What I DO know, is the galley behind it, has full oil pressure, in fact the passenger side galley is fed directly from the oil pump, and if you look, you will see there is a passage drilled down to the #1 main, and then a passage drilled up from the #1 main that feeds the entire driver side lifter bank. If you leave the plug out, you will dump all your oil pressure out behind that plate, and you will cause a massive leak. And I must be the odd man, I've been doing this for decades, and I've NEVER torn down a smallblock that didn't have those plugs, UNLESS it was rebuilt prior.