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Mark H

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A few months ago, a got a '50 Desoto Custom, and I've been a lurker here since, looking up info and finding answers to common questions. I've got one I haven't found an answer for. My head has a "feature" I've not seen before, a hole In the #6 combustion chamber which goes into the water jacket. It lines up with a pipe plug, which I've removed. You can see daylight through the hole. Seems to me, water would pour into the cylinder. Is there supposed to be something there?

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that hole is for finding TDC as when removed it allow you access to the piston top.....you used this also to verify stroke in a question if or if not the engine ever got stroked or de-stroked over the years due to parts available at the time the PO did some engine work...….of  note, it does not  plug or enter into any water jacket....

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As Plymouthy says this hole is used to check the stroke and confirm TDC......you insert a piece of stiff wire about 12" long and slowly hand rotate engine and measure the distance the wire rises and falls.........BTW......Welcome Aboard from Oz.............andyd 

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