[DeTomaso] Recap... Asa's adventure in Pantera fluid dynamics

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Geeez, always pointing me to that guy running the club store.

Well, if the Pantera holds 6½ gallons of coolant, and my system was 
completely dry, then I -definitely- had an air pocket.  My initial fill, 
to the point the radiator was full (coming out the bleed at the top) and 
the swirl tank was full, was three gallons.  I thought this was short, 
but could not get any more in.  The thermostat had a bleed hole as well, 
so I figured I need to run it an push some air out.  However, I now 
believe I introduced a big air lock in it somewhere, possibly at or near 
the pump and almost definitely in the engine.

Now that I've added coolant and manually turned the pump with the heater 
hose off, I have been able to tell when the impeller was saturated with 
coolant.  Now it's back to putting the thermostat housing on and 
attempting to bleed the system again.  This time, paying more attention 
to what's going on, rather than the excitement of just having the car 
running after two years.

There is probably a lesson in here about filling a dry Pantera with coolant.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/3/09 21 35 44, asajay at asajay.com writes:
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>
>   
>> - How many gallons does a typical Pantera take?  (Entire system, engine,
>> pipes and radiator, all dry)
>>
>>     
>
> I believe that nugget of information can be found in the original owner's 
> manual.   To get one of those, contact the POCA club store manager, Asa Jay 
> Laughton, at asajay at asajay.com :>) :>) :>)
>
> Mike (on the road with no original manual at hand to reference--somehow it 
> was left out of the digital version of 'the works'?)
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