Steve
I did the same thing with my MK IA. I used an old
Alpine washer bottle, basket, and bracket. It fits
very nicely under the stock header tank. Looks
almost stock. I replaced the radiator cap with
a coolant recovery cap so that when hot the
expanded coolant goes into the tank and when
it cools it is sucked back in the header tank.
When cold about 1 to 2 inches of coolant remains
in the washer bottle. The hot water seems to
have not hurt the washer bottle. The trick is to use
the right type of radiator cap. If you use a non
recovery cap (like stock) you lose the vacuum
in the system.
Does it help. I don't know but it can't hurt.
Dave Johnson, B382002668, Aurora, IL
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:48:34 -0800
From: SJC Worldwide <ssage@socal.rr.com>
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Subject: Spray Paint
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Now that I'm not sqeaking any more, I'm going to detail the Tiger
tommorow for the first time since its paint job. The new, dark version
of BRG looks really good on the car. Unfortunately, the body shop also
did a nice job of getting overspray mist in the engine compartment,
which I'll get off with some rubbing compound, but also on my new
burlwood dash (that I got from Sunbeam Specialties). There, it doesn't
look so good. It's a light mist all over the surface of the dash. It
comes off the guages pretty well just rubbing with Windex, but I don't
want to use anything harsh on the dash itself. Any ideas on what to use
to remove the paint and preserve the dash finish at the same time?
Second question. I have an extra coolant overflow bottle jammed in
front of the factory "header" tank. The idea is to keep the factory
tanks completely full for better cooling and let the level rise and fall
in the extra tank. I did this on my now ex Alpine and it did seem to
help cooling and it worked properly. On the Tiger what happens is that I
fill the factory tank completely and add a little water to the extra
bottle when the car is cold. When the car heats up, the coolant expands
as expected, fills up the overflow tank and keeps spitting out water
from it until the water level eventually, when cool again, ends up just
under the water level plate inside the factory tank, and some water
inside the extra bottle too. I guess I shouldn't complain but I want the
extra efficiency of the extra bottle (or is this of no actual value to
the car's cooling?). I tried a new radiator cap, and the old one, but
the system works the same with either of them.
Steve Sage
1967 MK1A
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