Your excused Brian, I can understand that. I have the same thing happening to me, I remembered the hot water test after Jon jogged my mammary.
Thanks Bob, I knew someone must have run across this brass plug stop before. I, first time I’d seen it, even though in my younger days I’d rebuilt quite a few Chevy 6’s and I was a parts man for Chevy for almost six years.
To get it out I just took a very small center punch and collapsed the two sides into the slot and it popped right out from the discharge spring pressure. The kits always have the tee stops in them but I’m going to duplicate the brass stop that came out of it. I’ll spin one up on the lathe in the morning. Just like I suspected, the well was full of crud. Now that all the plugs are out of the casting I’ll dip it for a couple more hours in the morning.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Denny G
Sandwich, IL