Hi everyone While working on my engine (water pump rebuild) I decided to something about the valley of death. Even though the engine has low miles and it was a crate engine installed in a car about five years ago there was already some deep corrosion in the deep holes in the valley of death. Knowing what might happen after a while I decided to plug those holes before its too late. I have seen an engine where the corrosion was so deep that a crack formed into the oil passage and the car was loosing oil at a rate that prevented it from driving. It would empty the oil pan in a minute through that crack in the block. What I did was I filled the holes and the entire valley with high temp automotive silicone and put an aluminum plate on top. I made sure that the plate sits at an angle sloping down towards the rear so any water will just run off to the back. BTW, I custom made that plate myself to make it fit exactly. Then I painted everything with high temp black paint. I am very happy with how it came out and I recommend everyone does something similar before it becomes a big $$$ problem. I uploaded a picture to the photos section on Yahoo. It's in the main folder, called "valley of death". Tom Niemczewski jamesik@xxxxx VIN 6149 (in Poland!) Save the dream so you can live the dream... To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/