[DeTomaso] Vedr: fluidyne radiator

[gudmund frøland]

My 1974 car
has a small tube going from front to rear along with the hyd brake & vacuum
line. I always wonder what that tube was for. I guess that is the same went
line as described here?


Den Torsdag, 23. oktober 2014 23.14 skrev Andy May <andymay24 at gmail.com>:
 


   Mike,

   My 1989 car has the narrow bore pipe from the top of the rad to the
   single pressure tank in the engine bay. Since when I got it the car was
   100% stock, I have no reason to suspect it left the factory any
   different. FWIW, the car has never overheated even on the warmest days
   europe can provide ;-)

   Andy

   On Oct 23, 2014 7:52 PM, "Mike Drew via DeTomaso"
   <[1]detomaso at poca.com> wrote:

     A  A In a message dated 10/23/14 10 43 12, [2]bd8134 at gmail.com
     writes:
     A  A  A The pipe goes all the way back under the car to the
     pressurized
     A  A  A water tank
     A  A  A by the engine.
     A  A  A You might be able to work it out by this drawing..
     A  A  A [3]http://www.pim.net/detsec11ill18.jpg
     A  A >>>This was a short-lived Ford-developed attempt to create a
     A  A self-bleeding cooling system.A  Their initial feeble attempt is
     A  A described in TSB #3; a small rubber hose is run from the top
     water
     A  A pipe, just behind the radiator, to a nipple on the top of the
     A  A radiator.A  What this is supposed to achieve is anybody's
     guess?A  Later,
     A  A in TSB #8 they came up with an even more far-fetched scheme,
     whereby a
     A  A nipple is brazed onto the pressure tank, the fitting on the
     water pipe
     A  A is blocked off, and a long hose is run from the radiator all
     the way
     A  A back to the pressure tank.A  How this is supposed to
     automatically purge
     A  A the system of air is a mystery I've never been able to fathom.
     A  A Eventually they gave up on these schemes, and the last cars
     used
     A  A neither system.
     A  A I think the cooling system purging procedure described in TSB
     #8 is
     A  A quite valid, if you don't have a vacuum-based cooling system
     A  A maintenance tool.
     A  A Mike
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   My 1974 car has a small tube going from front to rear along with the
   hyd brake & vacuum line. I always wonder what that tube was for. I
   guess that is the same went line as described here?
   Den Torsdag, 23. oktober 2014 23.14 skrev Andy May
   <andymay24 at gmail.com>:
     Mike,
     My 1989 car has the narrow bore pipe from the top of the rad to the
     single pressure tank in the engine bay. Since when I got it the car
   was
     100% stock, I have no reason to suspect it left the factory any
     different. FWIW, the car has never overheated even on the warmest
   days
     europe can provide ;-)
     Andy
     On Oct 23, 2014 7:52 PM, "Mike Drew via DeTomaso"
     <[1][1]detomaso at poca.com> wrote:
       A  A In a message dated 10/23/14 10 43 12, [2][2]bd8134 at gmail.com
       writes:
       A  A  A The pipe goes all the way back under the car to the
       pressurized
       A  A  A water tank
       A  A  A by the engine.
       A  A  A You might be able to work it out by this drawing..
       A  A  A [3][3]http://www.pim.net/detsec11ill18.jpg
       A  A >>>This was a short-lived Ford-developed attempt to create a
       A  A self-bleeding cooling system.A  Their initial feeble attempt
   is
       A  A described in TSB #3; a small rubber hose is run from the top
       water
       A  A pipe, just behind the radiator, to a nipple on the top of the
       A  A radiator.A  What this is supposed to achieve is anybody's
       guess?A  Later,
       A  A in TSB #8 they came up with an even more far-fetched scheme,
       whereby a
       A  A nipple is brazed onto the pressure tank, the fitting on the
       water pipe
       A  A is blocked off, and a long hose is run from the radiator all
       the way
       A  A back to the pressure tank.A  How this is supposed to
       automatically purge
       A  A the system of air is a mystery I've never been able to fathom.
       A  A Eventually they gave up on these schemes, and the last cars
       used
       A  A neither system.
       A  A I think the cooling system purging procedure described in TSB
       #8 is
       A  A quite valid, if you don't have a vacuum-based cooling system
       A  A maintenance tool.
       A  A Mike
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