I tore down an EDB block tonight and this kind of seal was in the rear main...it has a decent size wire running the length of the rope type seal. Never have seen one of these, always just the rope, or the lip seal like more modern day. What's the advantage, if any.

On a different topic, what is everybody's trick to getting out those pesky oil line plugs embedded (more like "welded") in the block?

Daniel Jessup

Lancaster, California

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