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Can anyone give me a heads on how much its goin to cost me to get a core plug replaced because one of mines got a dirty big hole in it!

I noticed i while ago that my car ( r33 gtst sedan, rb25det) was using a a little bit of water, but monitoring my temp and it was all good. But unfortunately today, luckily only 200m from my house i noticed the temo gauge going up around 3/4 and some steam out of the top right side of bonnet, When i got into my garage i popped my hood to find the core plug just above the oil filter was leaking. once the water had stopped i saw i lovely hole in there!!

So as above can anyone give me an estimate on how or if i can do it myself, i do all my own services and have sound mechanical knowledge, but never done any core plug changing

Thanks for your help in advance!

G

I think there's a bung thingy on the block, just above the oil filter, as he says. The drainage bung for the cooling system is on the other side of the block though, so I dunno what this other one would be for, but if it's just a plug, then I wouldn't imagine much. Unless you're saying that there is a hole around the plug? If the plug itself is damaged, but removeable, i'm sure you'd have change from a $20.

Can you take a pic? It's possible that someone with experience knows exactly what you're talking about, but I can't picture it.

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