Cooling Problems AGAIN

[keithisg]

If you remember my last thread I flushed my cooling system and put in a new heater bypass valve. Well this helped for awhile but it started overheating again so I flushed the system and I noticed a very steady stream of water coming out under the engine block coming down and hitting the driveshaft.

EDIT: Finished In case anyone is wondering how to do this, I will give you the best directions possible as I took no pictures because of the frustration involved.

1. Identify Freeze plug (mine was rear driver side)
2. Remove fender well if necessary, Its just a couple of screws and bolts shouldnt take but ten minutes.
3. (92exp4x4) Get a hole in it somewhere so that you can grab it from the inside. I punched a hole in it with a screw driver and then pried it out. Don't worry if it goes farther into the block just make sure you get the whole thing out.
4. Get one that matches that plug from an auto parts store take it with you for comparison because there are three different kinds that I've seen for 1st gens.
5. Put the new one in place and get something the same size and hammer it in. This could be the hardest part because of the cramped conditions. I personally got a long bar (handle for my jack haha) and hammered on it to punch it into place.
6. From what I've read some may need sealer, I didn't use it and I havent had it leak yet so who knows.
7. Reassemble.

Hope this helps, I found most of this information in other thread and figured some of it out.

Does anyone have an idea what this could be? I got the best pictures I could but if someone needs more to help diagnosis what this could be I can take more.
If you look hard in this picture you can see the stream coming from the block.

Here is from the bottom and again if you look hard you can see the stream hitting the driveshaft.

frost freeze plug hole

 

[Spook]

Maybe a frost plug?

 

[keithisg]

If it is that how do I replace it, I remember hearing about this in another thread and I couldnt think of the name.

 

[safn1949]

Freeze plug it is.

 

[92exp4x4]

Drill a hole in the center of the plug, pull it out with a slide hammer and knock in a new one. You can also sometimes knock them sideways in the bore and pull them out with some pliers.

Sounds simple and it is if the engine is out of the truck. You will just have to look and see where exactly its peeing out of. There ain't much room to work around these engines.

Barsleak is a wonderful quick fix but it has its own problem forming tendencies.

 

[keithisg]

Yeah so I got it out and that took forever, and I see what you mean if it was out of the truck but mine happens to be the one behind the Y pipe on the drivers side so I'm trying to figure out methods of knocking the new one in? Any gasket sealer I should use or something?