Question about Lifter Oil Gallery Plugs

[65Val]

I've seen people replace the worthless nylon toothed timing gear with another worthless nylon gear,

Well, thats not the case here. I bought the car from the original owner, and he never opened up the motor, so these plugs were factory installed. The pic I posted was just for illustrative purposes... not my engine, and the plugs in my engine weren't plated.

 

[fishy68]

I've seen them both ways. When I bought my Cuda it had a rebuilt 360 in it that had somewhat low (10 @ idle and 40 max with a HV pump) oil pressure. I started tearing into it and found the 2 galley plugs missing and thought, ahh! Found the problem. Installed plugs and it made no change what so ever. Do I install them when I rebuild an engine? Yes. Does it need them? Probably not, but why chance it over $2 worth of parts.

 

[sireland67]

I just walked up to the garage and looked at an un-molested 72 318 block, the plugs are in there, with no drilled bolts and an oil slinger for the timing chain.

The 72 340 I just rebuilt had the plugs.

The 94 360 I rebuilt last year did not have the plugs.

 

[GEO]

My 69 340 doesn't have them and carried 40lbs oil pressure hot at idle.

I am putting on a milodon gear drive and will have to put the plugs in as there are two extra holes in the gear drive plate that will partially uncover the galley holes and bleed off oil pressure

 

[GEO]

...then why is there only 2 in a freeze plug kit?? If for the rocker shafts, wouldn't you need 4?

This is what mine looked like upon disassembly (not quite as clean, though). It is the original, numbers, never been apart before( according the orig. owner) 273 2 bbl engine. Also had the orig. nylon timing gear and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d timing chain to prove it.

thanks for posting this picture and answering a question of mine

 

[gtmopar]

My 360 has 2 small 1/8 inch holes drilled in each plug I assume for timing chain lubrication.