Getting block prepped for the hot tank

why? as long as you replace it after tanking and hand cleaning after honing and running brushes thru the oil galleries it shouldn't be an issue.


No reason to take that one out. The solution gets to both sides of it. Unless you do it every day you are likely to forget it. And it's impossible to put it in after the fact. Too many guys leave out simple gallery plugs. No sense making it harder that it has to be.