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Re: [oletrucks] heater core

To: Truckexprt@aol.com, cafe_dave@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] heater core
From: Advdesign1@aol.com
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:40:48 EDT

<< 
 I have a new radiator and had my heater core recored with tube & fin core in 
 my 58 Chevy also. I have been runnung a 13lb cap for about two years with no 
 problems. However if you are still running with the original core you will 
 need to stay with a 4lb cap. >>

GM cars of the 1960s came with cellular heater cores, tube and fin radiators 
and 14 lb pressure caps.  So cellular heater cores are engineered for the 
higher pressure.  I have not found a cellular radiator that came from the 
factory with higher than 7 psi cap.  Apparently cellular heater cores take 
the pressure without a problem, but high pressure isn't so god for larger 
cores.
Bob ADler
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959

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