Topic: 350f plug

[skidooextreme]

So i finally got the new bolts to the 350f clutch cover and wanted to get some oil in her after 3 years of rebuilding. Although she is still not done, i just wanted to lubricate her(haha). So i had the stator cover off and hooked up power to the start via a jumper cable.  After about 30sec-1min, i finally built oil pressure and it started to come out the top of the engine as it should.  All of a sudden i got dripped on, the small plug under the rotor pushed out and oil started leaking.  What exactly is this plug for, the cover to the rotor does not seem to have a spot to keep this plug in, so just wondering as the pressure builds, this obviously is ment to push out?

[faux fiddy]

Is it a plug around a shaft?

[ttr400]

It is a main oil gallery plug, it is held in place by the alternator cover. while it's out you might as well put a new O-ring on there.

Kevin

[skidooextreme]

So oil is suppose to pass between the crankcase and the alternator cover...so essentially taking off the cover will spill some oil.  The parts diagram shows a round plug with a point..all I see is a flat plug

[Bodi]

There are plugs on both ends of the main oil gallery - which is just a round hole drilled across the engine. The right side plug threads in. The left one is just a round plug with an O-ring, and it is held in by the alternator cover. No oil is supposed to go into the alternator: the oil from the pump goes to the filter and from it into that gallery... there are small passages from it to the main bearings and up towards the valvegear. You're far from being the first to get an oil bath by running the engine with the cover off. Replacing the O-ring while it's off is a good idea. I don't know about any point - it's just a plug so the shape doesn't matter.

[skidooextreme]

i see the indent on the cover that is supposedly keeping the plug in, but there is no way that the plug is kept in by the cover.  The plug came out half way no way near the outer edge of the crankcase and oil was spilling out ......NUMBER 3...this would keep it in,,,,, do i have it in backwards?? dont remember taking it out

[Bodi]

OK, I see the point now. Looks familiar, too. I don't have an engine open to look at right now... but if the thing didn't spew oil through the alternator previously, something sure as heck held that plug in. Does it look like that point broke off? Did some weird part a PO stuffed in there (to hold the plug in) fall out and get lost? You say halfway out... any chance it's in there backwards?

[skidooextreme]

It might be in backwards...going to drain the oil and look