Well, There's Your Problem Right There

"rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S" (rb1971) 07/30/2014 at 15:25 • Filed to: None

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Turns out when you refresh everything but one part in the cooling system on a 65+ year old car, even when that one thing looks like sold metal - yeah, it's gonna leak when you up the pressure.

Off to NAPA. Metal pipe - your long and glorious reign is over, it'll be an all-rubber world after lunch.

GhostZ > rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S 07/30/2014 at 15:47

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Simplify, add lightness.

FrederickLawOlmsteez > rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S 07/30/2014 at 16:02

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deekster_caddy > rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S 07/30/2014 at 16:49

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Ugh. Ford still used something like that on the '00 Taurus. What a friggin nightmare part to replace. Who does this? (My MG has one too, but it's a '54 so I can say they didn't know better... although it's still holding and original...)

Slave2anMG > deekster_caddy 07/30/2014 at 20:41

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My '72 Midget has a steel crossover pipe along the bottom. When they went from the downflow radiator to a crossflow that I guess came out of BMC's parts bin, the bottom outlet was on the wrong size. So rather than crank up a new radiator design, they put in the crossover tube. And put the system drain in the middle of it to ensure that when you drain the system you splatter sticky nasty coolant all over yourself and the front valence of the car. Derp. I use a peristaltic pump and pump the crap out from the top :)

boobytrapsandtreasure > rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S 07/31/2014 at 14:33

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Best of luck. I know the smell of that stuff intimately. My first car had a heater core go out. It barfed antifreeze all over the floorboard.