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Re: cooling system pressure test

To: kai@radiohead.net
Subject: Re: cooling system pressure test
From: Diane and Roland Dudley <csx2282@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:45:26 -0700
Check your local plumbing supply store for rubber pipe end caps.  They
come in various sizes and even include a hose clamp.  That's what I used 
to seal the inlet tube on my gas tank.

Roland

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:41:30 -0400 "Kai M. Radicke" <kai@radiohead.net>
writes:
> 
> 
> If the radiator was out of the car, I would just block off the inlet 
> and
> outlet with a square piece of rubber cut from an old inner tube and 
> then use
> a hose clamp to secure the rubber over the openings.  I'd pressurize 
> the
> radiator in a shallow tub of water, just to make the detection of 
> escaping
> air bubbles easier to see (we later got slick and used food dye for 
> the
> fluid in the radiator and then submerged it).

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