I have been meaning to say something on this radiator neck/cap issue for
a while but I usually read my mail off line at home and it was never
important enough to hook up and respond.
I don’t know anything about bumps in the neck. I checked the 150’s
radiator and no bumps were detected. What I do know is that many older
English cars used a neck with a deeper recess than the modern equivelant
so modern caps won’t seal. My MGA was this way. I had the shop solder
in a shorter neck (they are interchangeable) when the radiator was
recored. I believe that the old English cars were 1 inch from the top
to the sealing surface while newer cars are 7/8 inch. Or were the old
cars 7/8 and the new ones 3/4? I don’t remember. I don know if you add
another gasket under the sealing surface of a properly sized radiator
cap you will increase the pressure inside the system. Old English
radiators are not the best built- some use butt joints instead of lap
joints- and 7 psi is the absolute maximum pressure you should run.
Ken,
Good luck with your door. Although I must say that your use of the
rubber chicken sounds more like a pagan ritual than a cube companion.
Although I must admit that it sounds like a better solution than all of
the beeps, growls, grunts and finger dances required to fire up my
Windows 96 laptop every morning.
Regards,
Bill Eastman
58 fhc soon to be chopped, channeled and Z’d with a Nova subframe (just
kidding) Honey, where did I put that Summit Racing catolog?
Ken,
Good luck with your door. Although I must say that your use of the
rubber chicken sounds more like a pagan ritual than a cube companion.
Although I must admit that it sounds like a better solution than all of
the beeps, growls, grunts and finger dances required to fire up my
Windows 96 laptop every morning.
Regards,
Bill Eastman
58 fhc soon to be chopped, channeled and Z’d with a Nova subframe (just
kidding) Honey, where did I put that Summit Racing catolog?
Thanks,
With the advice I got from Wray, I have my highest probability of success.
Re: The pagan ritual, it’s just part of the No Cal computer nut scene. Twenty
years in the valley of the Sillycon will do it to ya. It goes along with
the solstice celebrations, and, one should not forget the equinoxes.
(equinoxi?)
Ken
Ken Boetzer
Juniper Networks
385 Ravendale Dr.
Mountain View, CA 94043
(650) 526-3194 @Ken_Boetzer2
The very mention of Jaguar, chopped, channeled and Z’d with a Nova subframe
and Summit Racing in one fell swoop should remind us of all the “specials”
that were built between the late 40’s through the early 60’s in the U.S.
that served no purpose but to roundly beat a few Goliath’s of the automotive
world on road courses.
Ken,
Good luck with your door. Although I must say that your use of the
rubber chicken sounds more like a pagan ritual than a cube companion.
Although I must admit that it sounds like a better solution than all of
the beeps, growls, grunts and finger dances required to fire up my
Windows 96 laptop every morning.
Regards,
Bill Eastman
58 fhc soon to be chopped, channeled and Z’d with a Nova subframe (just
kidding) Honey, where did I put that Summit Racing catolog?
