[DeTomaso] A new 56,000 pound Pantera tool

[Kirby Schrader]

Having gone through offshore fire fighting training and having had to use a
fire hose... I would caution that it would be pretty easy to get too much
pressure. A fire hose can easily lift two men off their feet. Been there,
done that....

My caution would be that it could be very easy to over pressure the radiator
with a fire hose and you would endup ruining it.

Glad to hear you got it flushed!

Kirby




On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 13:21, robert stewart <rspink2012 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A couple of weeks back John Taphorn and I were looking at the rad which is
> out
> of my car. The rad is a fairly new Fluidyne.  Given that the pipes off the
> rad
> are straight it was easy to see that an accumulation of RTV, rust and
> assorted
> unknown crap was clogging the rad.
>
>
> The Rad had come out of a car with a newly rebuilt engine (which blew
> before I
> got it) and water pipes that were rusted beyond belief.  Initial attempts
> to
> remove the junk included the use of long needle nose pliers, a magnet and
> connecting the rad to a garden hose.  The first two helped remove a decent
> amount of junk but not enough.  The garden hose was pretty useless as it
> couldn't generate enough pressure.
>
> Then JT suggested a fire hose.  So off we went to the local fire station.
> The
> guys at the fire station couldn't have been more helpful.  They pulled a
> hose
> directly off a fire engine and we connected it with a piece of green stripe
> hose
> with a couple of clamps. The fire chief did caution --- if that is blocked
> up
> real bad the pressure might knock you off your feet. So with John and I
> clutching the rad they cranked up the fire engine.  With the first gust of
> water
> (thankfully we were still on out feet and not our butts) a large amount of
> crap
> came out off the rad. Water continued to flow and we got the worst of it
> out. I
> will probably hook it up backwards and put a filter on the get the rest of
> it.
>
>
> The guys at the fire station were fantastic to find the time and effort to
> do
> this.  Just one more tool to consider when working on a Pantera. - I
> believe a
> fully loaded fire engine weighs about 56,000 pounds.
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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