[DeTomaso] A new 56,000 pound Pantera tool

[michael@michaelshortt.com]

Ditto, but it does say a lot about the quality of the Fluidyne which has
been maligned by some on this very forum.

I wonder if all the others could take the same pressure as this one and
survive?

Michael Shortt

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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