@@ricardofierro7041 As far as core/freeze/welch plugs are concerned, there is nothing that drag racing can do that would be regarded as 'abnormal' service. Everyone else seems to be able to get it right over the course of the last seven decades of racing.
It's not the price of the freeze plug ! It's about the nit-wit that installed it ! The Radiator cap only let's the pressure build up 15 to 18 pounds so the cap should have blown first which tells me the Freeze plug wasn't installed properly , therefore it came out .
Those guys do not think like we do. It is all the car. I remember back in the late 50s at Petersburg Va strip, a roadster known as "the golden mood" (painted copper) blew an engine. It was a crowd favorite. As the trailer was leaving with the car, 2 guys were on the trailer, one on each side starting the tear down. Wow!🦇
I'm still laughing as an engine builder but it's actually called a core plug not a freeze plug but they change the name to a freeze plug because everybody thought it was designed to pop out when your engine was freezing up but when the water keeps freezing up you got a cracked block. That's why I never use the thin freeze plugs. On the serious race motors they actually would put three pins in them
Yeah right that things is so bent up it’s not even funny. The cost of time on a Frame machine is gonna be more than the body. Trust me I’ve seen plenty of cars get in the wall that thing is toast. Dogs walk straighter then that things gonna. Sorry but that’s the truth.
Not nearly as bad as my old man using a bumper jack to do a starter on his '77 Buick on the extremely soft asphalt. The whole neighborhood was watching! 😂
OMG.......... i just about cried when it went backwards into the wall, damn it thats going to be soo expensive to repair. Thankfully no one was injured and although its going to be very hard on the wallet it looks to be repairable. This is one of my favorite cars from the 60s. As always Thank you for sharing my friend, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊God Bless 🙏
That big FE power kicked out a freeze plug. On a drag car. Sometimes a lower pressure cap and a large puke tank can help prevent that. A belly pan with pig mats never hurts too. Hindsight .
Absolutely repairable. Back in the day I saw even first generation Mustangs and other unibody cars with much more rear end damage than this fixed like new.
Well, I'm not a Ford man but I will say that's a really nice comet! It's a shame that your freeze plug popped out. I think antifreeze is slicker than oil myself. So folks don't believe that, but from experience and after my years of being a mechanic. Spilling oil sometimes happens and transmission fluid sometimes spills too, but I have experienced that none of those are anywhere near as slick as antifreeze. Lol, but it's the worse thing when it hits those back tires.
Fe engines use a 1 49/64 freeze plug. A lot of times people use a 1 3/4 plug which is looser in the block bore. Double check the size used so not to have issues in the future.. hope you get it back on the track soon. Beautiful car!🚗
I was expected a violent rollover or something but nah that thing is likely still race ready once the freeze plug is installed properly, looks like it only shifted the quarters
That's not a destroyed car, but it makes for a catchy title. They'll buff it out, and if they're good you won't see anything from the crash when they're done. Will be easier too, than searching for replacement parts. That's the pro with those vintage cars.
Drill and tap couple small holes on the freeze pug shoulder, use a small retaining bolt, with a washer that will keep freeze plugs from coming out of the hole....
Freeze plug came out? That is a hell of a note. That doesn't just happen if it is put in correctly. I guess it wasn't one of those temporary rubber ones? The bodywork is really pretty straightforward to repair. Car is not destroyed, just the owners pride.
On second thought i see how a freeze plug blowing out can destroy a car, plug goes, allows coolant to cause the car to loose traction and spinout, then hit the wall. Yeah that could do it alright lol. That never dawned on me until i seen it for myself.🙆♂️🙋♂️
What's shocking is not the freeze plug blowing out or the crash itself. What's most shocking is that no one's telling dude it's not the best idea to jack up a 2 ton body crusher in the grass with no jack stands. Is his name Flat Stanley?
I've been watching Cars on the drag race since the mid-60s I've never seen a stink bug Style profile car handle well. Funny cars do it because they have such large tires. If you drop it down two and a half 3 in you'd get better traction and much better handling
if that was a factory big block Mustang or another valuable car it would be worth fixing but it would be cheaper to find another similar car and swap everything over. I bet 2 door post comet parts are hard to find
A lot of plug kits for an FE come with 1 3/4" plugs when they are suppose to have 1 49/64" plugs. The 3/4 ones fit but are not tight enough and can leak or fall out. Maybe this was the cause. 🤷♂
@@MaxDeet7439good possibility, considering the "one size fits most" way parts are sold now. Trying to get a proper gasket kit for a 67 Cadillac is a joke.
A freeze plug should’a been the Least of this guys worries…Oh well, gotta blame your insolence on something, I guess!?! Put that rarity out to pasture away from the strip…Cruise-In’s, coffee & donuts car shows would’ve been a better option! 😅
Dont know how a blown freeze plug could destroy an engine, cause i know people that race with solid blocks no coolant what so ever, theyve bored the block out to the point theyve had to add stuff to the block to keep it from splitting open. Have you seen this or is it something that i just encountered at a hillbilly dragstrip?🤷♂️🤠🙋♂️
@@AutoMotoCha9L Ok, got it, that makes sense. Even though he was traveling in a straight line, there's so much inertia in the back wheels, they were still prone to spinning on a slick surface.
A freeze plug blowing out is not necessarily a part failure. Sounds more like an installation failure.
When a new core/freeze plug is correctly installed & sealed, it will not come out in normal service, period.
@@KB10GL…….. IN NORMAL service is the point. Normal.
It’s not normal so can and does happen
@@ricardofierro7041 As far as core/freeze/welch plugs are concerned, there is nothing that drag racing can do that would be regarded as 'abnormal' service.
Everyone else seems to be able to get it right over the course of the last seven decades of racing.
@@ricardofierro7041
How do you service a freeze plug?
It's leaking or it's not.
It's not the price of the freeze plug !
It's about the nit-wit that installed it !
The Radiator cap only let's the pressure build up 15 to 18 pounds so the cap should have blown first which tells me the Freeze plug wasn't installed properly , therefore it came out .
Yeah and it was probably a gal one because they're .50c cheaper than a brass one.
Plus WATER PUMP PRESSURE forcing water through...
Might be 30 easily ...
But hey, a plug should take twice that.
@@ThePaulv12exactly, the galvanized metal ones don't last anytime or they may last but not worth the chance.
Under a jacked up car on the grass with no jackstand gave me the eeby jeeby's
he probably at that moment didn't care
Those guys do not think like we do. It is all the car. I remember back in the late 50s at Petersburg Va strip, a roadster known as "the golden mood" (painted copper) blew an engine. It was a crowd favorite. As the trailer was leaving with the car, 2 guys were on the trailer, one on each side starting the tear down. Wow!🦇
yeah that's the first thing I thought, probably the same person who installed the freeze plug
No need to fret his racing shoes matched the car 😂
Tells part of the story right there.
I'm still laughing as an engine builder but it's actually called a core plug not a freeze plug but they change the name to a freeze plug because everybody thought it was designed to pop out when your engine was freezing up but when the water keeps freezing up you got a cracked block. That's why I never use the thin freeze plugs. On the serious race motors they actually would put three pins in them
I correct people all the time, core plug, not a freeze plug.
The ones I dislike the most is all these movie producers who think it's a keen and excellent to tear up all these old cars to make a movie
There shouldn't be a competent body shop anywhere that couldn't fix that with minimum parts required. It just won't be done in a day, ...... or two.
Yeah right that things is so bent up it’s not even funny. The cost of time on a Frame machine is gonna be more than the body. Trust me I’ve seen plenty of cars get in the wall that thing is toast.
Dogs walk straighter then that things gonna.
Sorry but that’s the truth.
Cheaper to find another roller than fix that mess
Wheel it over to the truck pull section, fixed in 60 seconds, coolant is over rated anyway.
The scary part is somebody getting under a car only supported by a hydraulic jack, you are betting your life on a 15 cent oring !
Works everytime right up until it doesn't.
Always a cry baby arround!
@@anthonyking4387remember the old VHS "Faces of Death". Maybe it's just us older folks! 🤣
Not nearly as bad as my old man using a bumper jack to do a starter on his '77 Buick on the extremely soft asphalt. The whole neighborhood was watching! 😂
15 cents? You’re giving it too much credit. Jack looks like a harbour freight special from China, so more like a 2 cent o-ring 😊
only an idiot would get under a car, only supported by a hydraulic jack on grass!!!
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Bingo !
@@stevethegreasemonkey if you say so, a jackstand used properly on a hard surface never fails. that must be you in the video!
I agree!
Absolutely agree 100%
OMG.......... i just about cried when it went backwards into the wall, damn it thats going to be soo expensive to repair. Thankfully no one was injured and although its going to be very hard on the wallet it looks to be repairable. This is one of my favorite cars from the 60s. As always Thank you for sharing my friend, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy and remember to SMILE 😊God Bless 🙏
Just a nice hard pull, looking at the thickness of cracked bondo this car has mixed it up before.
427 side oiler 66 service block had
Pipe thread plugs.
As did some boss 302s.
That big FE power kicked out a freeze plug. On a drag car. Sometimes a lower pressure cap and a large puke tank can help prevent that. A belly pan with pig mats never hurts too.
Hindsight .
Thread them for screw in core plugs. I know probably not easy to do tho.
Find a old school body / frame man. He can fix that
Is that a unibody car?
@@oneninerniner3427yes
Absolutely repairable. Back in the day I saw even first generation Mustangs and other unibody cars with much more rear end damage than this fixed like new.
So sorry to see all that beauty and work torn up. 55 seemed to stop quite well. Good for him.🦇
66 MERCY COMET!!! Had one. Miss it. Sad this one took a hard hit😢😢😢
Never heard of a Mercy Comet.
@@ellieprice3396 you did now after that hit
Well, I'm not a Ford man but I will say that's a really nice comet! It's a shame that your freeze plug popped out. I think antifreeze is slicker than oil myself. So folks don't believe that, but from experience and after my years of being a mechanic. Spilling oil sometimes happens and transmission fluid sometimes spills too, but I have experienced that none of those are anywhere near as slick as antifreeze. Lol, but it's the worse thing when it hits those back tires.
Im just glad the 55 wasn't messed up to bad
did the 55 get hit or was that prior racing cred? Looked pretty far apart
Just replayed it your right that scuff mark was already on the hood when they left the line .@@fastst1
Awful , watching any classic having a crash that causes damage.
I like the crashes that don’t cause damage!
@@SLJ2137694Would that be a near miss or a near hit ? 🤷♂️
Fe engines use a 1 49/64 freeze plug. A lot of times people use a 1 3/4 plug which is looser in the block bore. Double check the size used so not to have issues in the future.. hope you get it back on the track soon. Beautiful car!🚗
I think they need to jack the rear of the car up a little higher.
Not even close to destroyed.
Exactly. Damaged, but repairable.
Destroyed?? Click bait. That's fixable, and I'm sure they will in no time.
Ouch........I saw it was crunched on your earlier video today and wondered what happened......dang, a freeze plug!
Yeah core plug, bummer
Engine diapers are worth their weight in gold!!
If I ever crashed my old hot rod, they'd need a whole crew to clean up all the chunks of body filler on the track.
Lotta Bondo in that crunched fender
If you're gonna race it, expect it to get destroyed. No one takes a car they love and want to keep and drag races it.
It's not destroyed
NOPE, NOTHING A GOOD BODY SHOP WITH A FRAME RIG AND $28,000 WON'T FIX.
Not destroyed but a big fix!😅
That’s a shame. Hopefully it can be fixed.
Well I don't think the car is a total loss. Plus the times both were running. Sad for the Mercury but it can be repaired...
The old Chevy driver didn't look like he was even trying to win the race.
Jack directly on grass w no jack stands - my dad would beat my ass if i did that LOL
About twenty years ago or so I saw Greg Anderson do the same thing when his car flipped following a freeze plug letting go. NHRA was not amused.
I agree thr jack stands are a must, these guys are brave, respect and salute
I was expected a violent rollover or something but nah that thing is likely still race ready once the freeze plug is installed properly, looks like it only shifted the quarters
That's not a destroyed car, but it makes for a catchy title. They'll buff it out, and if they're good you won't see anything from the crash when they're done. Will be easier too, than searching for replacement parts. That's the pro with those vintage cars.
Lucky he only paid $2 for that thing 😳
Drill and tap couple small holes on the freeze pug shoulder, use a small retaining bolt, with a washer that will keep freeze plugs from coming out of the hole....
Very repairable body, not destroyed as click bait says.
I had a 68 Chrysler 300 that always blew the back freeze plug
Shouldn't have been anti-freeze in that car. Water only.
Right you are Mike.....distilled water and a bottle or two of Wet Water for extra cooling...both NHRA approved
Good thing the 55 was slow.
Glad he’s not hurt. Glad the car can be fixed this stuff kind of happens all the time unfortunately
Freeze plug came out? That is a hell of a note. That doesn't just happen if it is put in correctly. I guess it wasn't one of those temporary rubber ones? The bodywork is really pretty straightforward to repair. Car is not destroyed, just the owners pride.
I cried for my 62 Mercury Comet when it got turned around and backed into the wall
This is tragic. A 55 Chevrolet almost got destroyed.
That was a nice looking Comet I hope he gets it fixed.
Say that damaged car at Byron glory days. Wondered what happened, thanks for video
Destroyed? HA!!! 2 comealongs 2 pretty stout oak trees, couple cranks, and that'll buff right out!! Sheesh man ya'll dunno country! 🤣🤣
Well that sucks!!. He'll be back!!!
Might as well Throw one of those reliable Harbor Freight jack stands under there with that Harbor Freight jack.
B302's had screw in freeze plugs, but when they're screw in they're actually no longer a freeze plug
On second thought i see how a freeze plug blowing out can destroy a car, plug goes, allows coolant to cause the car to loose traction and spinout, then hit the wall. Yeah that could do it alright lol. That never dawned on me until i seen it for myself.🙆♂️🙋♂️
What's shocking is not the freeze plug blowing out or the crash itself. What's most shocking is that no one's telling dude it's not the best idea to jack up a 2 ton body crusher in the grass with no jack stands. Is his name Flat Stanley?
I've been watching Cars on the drag race since the mid-60s I've never seen a stink bug Style profile car handle well. Funny cars do it because they have such large tires. If you drop it down two and a half 3 in you'd get better traction and much better handling
I was going to watch it in slow motion but it already is in slow motion
Destroyed???
You know nothing of frame pulling machines and floor pots in collision shops.
A good body man will have it straight in no time
Body on frame, that car will never be the same.
Unibody car
Not body on frame
Destroyed ?? Really ??
Boy that’s hard to watch. Loved those old Comets and Fairlanes.
if that was a factory big block Mustang or another valuable car it would be worth fixing but it would be cheaper to find another similar car and swap everything over. I bet 2 door post comet parts are hard to find
What caused the f.plug to blow out? Too many RPMs in the water pump caused block pressure?
A lot of plug kits for an FE come with 1 3/4" plugs when they are suppose to have 1 49/64" plugs. The 3/4 ones fit but are not tight enough and can leak or fall out. Maybe this was the cause. 🤷♂
@@MaxDeet7439good possibility, considering the "one size fits most" way parts are sold now. Trying to get a proper gasket kit for a 67 Cadillac is a joke.
@@billfoster213 Yeah. I have resorted to making my own gaskets on some stuff that I know would be a headache to track down.
@@MaxDeet7439 me too, except for exhaust gaskets. I got a set that contained 6 of the wrong type and 2 that were correct.
Hardly destroyed!
Couldn’t keep core plugs in my flathead Ford V8 Pilot, as soon as the engine warmed up, they’d leak.
That will buff right out….
You know that's funny my dad had a 1966 Mercury cyclone convertible GT and every time you jumped on that sucker to freeze plugs and blow out of it
Makes a good case for zero pressure coolant.
Mines been zero pressure for years.
So if a vintage bottle of wine was emptied, is it still vintage?
The glass bottle is🍾
Race car>Drag Strip>Walls=bent up car…no walls at Bonneville.
It will never be the same !
Here is How Vintage Car got Destroyed due to "drag racing".
A freeze plug should’a been the Least of this guys worries…Oh well, gotta blame your insolence on something, I guess!?! Put that rarity out to pasture away from the strip…Cruise-In’s, coffee & donuts car shows would’ve been a better option! 😅
Well, at least they packed the stands with spectators.
Always be quick to lift
Dont know how a blown freeze plug could destroy an engine, cause i know people that race with solid blocks no coolant what so ever, theyve bored the block out to the point theyve had to add stuff to the block to keep it from splitting open. Have you seen this or is it something that i just encountered at a hillbilly dragstrip?🤷♂️🤠🙋♂️
Killed a quarter panel, but not destroyed; didn't roll it.
That'll buff right out ...
Running a little hot?
I thought maybe it was the after-market cup holder.
Oh hell that's a terrible sight
Very sad, i hope he fixed it. This is why ford put screw in freeze plugs in their race engines
I thought for sure it was hitting the Dry Sweep and remnants from a clean up. That's gonna be a bit to fix. Hopefully the good lord helps.
So a freeze plug did this by how? That Cleveland sounds pretty good from here!!!
Antifreeze hit the back tires , which is illegal to use at the strip . WATER ONLY .
Well at least he runs it hard!😊
So what was the 2 dollar part ?
@@stevecobb2592 Engine block casting plug came out and leaked coolant and wet the track and tires
Ok I must be stupid, but how does loosing a freeze plug make the guy spin out and hit the wall backwards at the end of a run?
Antifreeze spilled went under rear wheels car lost control
@@AutoMotoCha9L Ok, got it, that makes sense. Even though he was traveling in a straight line, there's so much inertia in the back wheels, they were still prone to spinning on a slick surface.
The car looks better after the wreck!!!
Ford used screw in lugs in some of their high performance engines. I think I would change to those.
It will buff out. Drain the water and send it.
The red car doesn't look like the most safest thing to take down a drag strip.
High quality parts made in China.
Well it definitely blew all the Bondo out of it
I don't know where this comet is located but there is a kinda decent parts car in wichita kansas it does have rust buy is not wrecked
And a temp gauge indicated what?
How does a freeze plug cause a car to jump into another lane and roll backwards??
@@electricguysvcs leaking liquid on the tires and track, it is slippery
49/64 is .015 bigger than 3/4
Damn....
Not “destroyed”. Friends with a roll on frame straightening machine can have this tweaked back into shape with few body panels and a new rear bumper.
I had one blow on my car as i pulled 4 gear slid sides for a ways never hit any thing i was lucky small collar soft plugs will do that
A roll of duct tape and she'll be good as new!!
Kidding aside... that sucks!! Great looking car...what track is that?
Hurts just to watch it.