[DeTomaso] A new 56,000 pound Pantera tool

[Kirby Schrader]

Full pressure on a fire truck would be guaranteed to break it!
I think a typical fire truck can easily achieve 300psi or so depending on
flow rate....

I'm sure a fireman will now proceed to tell me I don't know what I'm talking
about...

:-)

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 13:49, robert stewart <rspink2012 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  In fairness I don't think they cranked the pressure up full - but plenty
> to do the job.
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> *From:* "michael at michaelshortt.com" <michaelsavga at gmail.com>
> *To:* Kirby Schrader <kirby.schrader at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* robert stewart <rspink2012 at yahoo.com>; detomaso at realbig.com
> *Sent:* Thu, September 30, 2010 1:43:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [DeTomaso] A new 56,000 pound Pantera tool
>
> 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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