NGM Diesel said:other than strapping the freeze plug. drilling two little holes in the thermostat keep the big pressure spikes from happening. takes a few more minutes to warm up but ill deal with that instead of all the built up pressure blowing freeze plugs out.
Robert
You can try clipping the waterpump fins. Or tap the freezeplug holes with a gigantic pipe tap and make trick threaded freezeplugs. Then you will blow something other than the plugs next time.