[DeTomaso] another radiator question

[Christopher Kimball]

That's what I'm going to do, but I need to put a right angle elbow on the top because the petcock is too long and hits the light riase/lower bar.

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> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:15:32 -0500
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] another radiator question
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>  I have a 20 year old Hall radiator that has worked great over the years and I just had it repaired last spring.   The radiator came with upper and lower petcocks on the driver's side of the radiator.   The petcocks look like wingnuts with a hollow tube that screws in and out.   I just jam (friction fit) a short length of clear plastic tubing in the lower one when I drain the radiator so the coolant flows out the tube into my catch pan.  This is kind of like Mike's arrangement but with out the fixed plumbing.   I do the same with the top one when I bleed the air out; just jam a piece of tube into the petcock and run it over the front of the car into a catch bottle.   When the plastic tube is inserted into the petcock it will turn as screw/unscrew the wings, so you just have to be careful that the tube doesn't come out as it is rotating when you're opening the valve.
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> Tom
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> From: Christopher Kimball <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
> To: Pantera List Serve <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 16, 2011 11:36 pm
> Subject: [DeTomaso] another radiator question
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> Well, they think they finally have the radiator fixed.  While it was at the shop 
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> I asked them to put a spigot on the top air-bleed attachment so I could attach a 
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> hose to it for easier bleeding and open and close it by hand (besides, the 
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> original had cracked).
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> They put on a spigot, but when I got the radiator home, the spigot stuck out too 
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> far and hit the headlight raising/lowering bar.  I removed the spigot and am 
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> thinking about getting a right angle threaded piece to which I can attach a hose 
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> which I can use when bleeding to direct the flow of coolant into a jar instead 
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> of all over the radiator, floor, etc.  I said all that to ask this:
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> Can I use fuel line hose or fuel injection line hose, or will the pressure from 
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> the system be too much for it?  The length of the hose will probably be about 
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> two feet, and I was planning on putting a spigot attachment on the opposite end 
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> of it from the radiator.
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> Thanks,
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> Chris 		 	   		  
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