[DeTomaso] Subject: LAYDOWN OR STRAIGHT UP RADIATOR

Jar Von Ritter flashbangpop at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 25 19:01:32 EDT 2012


How to bleed the air out of your new Fluidyne radiator.

1)  Wear diapers because you are going to crap your pants.
2)  Fill the reservoir with coolant.
3)  Drive it around the neighborhood until it hits 260 on the stock temp gauge and well into the "red zone".  This will happen almost immediately.
4)  Drive back home as quickly as you can.  (This is where you crap your pants)
5)  Using leather gloves and needle nose pliers, open the radiator bleed valve slowly and watch a tiny amount of air squeeze out.  When coolant flows, close it.
6)  Repeat steps 3 - 5 until the reservoir level drops enough to put more coolant in.  It may take 10 - 12 drives around the neighborhood to bleed all of the air.  (Idling didn't work for me and neither did jacking up the rear of the car.)
7)  When coolant flows immediately out of the radiator bleed valve, remove diaper and dispose.

Successful execution of the above steps will permanently relieve you of any and all fears of ever overheating the stock 351-C.  You will be able to sit like the Buddha in mid-afternoon traffic, Las Vegas NV, late August, blasting the A/C in perfect bliss.  You won't even look at the gauge because you will have attained an unshakable inner divine knowledge that all is well given your discovery that the gauge is inaccurate and reads 20 - 30 deg. high.
  


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 From: "LEVITT1946 at aol.com" <LEVITT1946 at aol.com>
To: detomaso at realbig.com 
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:19 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Subject: LAYDOWN OR STRAIGHT UP RADIATOR
 

Dear Group,

3 years ago I took out the original radiator and replaced it with a  
Fluidyne Radiator . I installed a 160 thermostat and a new high flow water pump.  
I am changing the thermostat to a robert shaw 180 which is cleveland 
specific. I  understand from others that the 160 is most probably for a windsor and 
could be  causing non highway cooling temperature increases.  

The car was sent to a shop in California. They laid the radiator down,took  
out the original Meriah Fans and installed two sucker fans. 

No improvement in cooling has been seen. At highway speeds the temperature  
is steady at 160 degrees. As soon as I pull off the highway and drive 
around  town the car temperature starts to rise. In the summer months or just 
stop n go  traffic , the temperature will increase to 220 plus .

I just want to make the car temperature within reason when the car is off  
the highway. 

My question is .............Should the fluidyne be laid down when it was  
not designed to be laid down ?  Or is my whole problem with rising  
temperature air that is trapped in the cooling system.

Open for suggestions .

Best Regards,
Bob  Levitt        
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