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Old 04-03-2003, 08:53 AM
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HITHERE HITHERE Factory SBC Design Question...

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What year did the SBC V-8s change back to brass frost plugs in the case cores?
Old 04-03-2003, 09:16 AM
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HITHERE don't know they ever did, guess HITHERE living in the dark ages
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I have been digging around on my '96 SS looking for the oil temperature sensor. I noticed brass plugs (unpainted, no less). I'm almost positive I knocked out steel plugs from the '94 when it was out, or so I recall. The '96 has a whopping 4,175 miles on it, so I know they were factory. Seven oil changes may have eaten up the sensor, eh?

I'm in even darker ages...

What's baffling is that although the dealers have a P/N and inventory for the sensor, no one can tell me where it is mounted. The Bell & Howell slides and screens don't show it in the exploded diagrams. I'm getting a P0197 DTC. When I changed oil yesterday, I removed the level sensor in the side of the pan, and that isn't even CLOSE to the temp sensor. The plug is totally different, wrong threads, etc.

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