Return-Path: Received: from [65.54.168.111] (HELO hotmail.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2981237 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:35:39 -0500 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 14:35:39 -0800 Received: from 67.25.179.68 by bay3-dav7.bay3.hotmail.com with DAV; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 22:35:38 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [67.25.179.68] X-Originating-Email: [lors01@msn.com] X-Sender: lors01@msn.com From: "Tracy Crook" To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] water pump with 2 outlets Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:35:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.02.0011.2700 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3EDA0.CD409D60" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Feb 2004 22:35:39.0110 (UTC) FILETIME=[B61DF860:01C3EDCA] ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3EDA0.CD409D60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ah, things are never simple. This is probably another of those items tha= t will show different results based on how the experiment (our radiators)= is set up. I REALLY want a low mounted water pump and will reconsider t= his approach. I'll try to get to the junk yard in the next couple of wee= ks and identify some donor cars (Toyota) for a 2 outlet water pump. =20 I'll sure be glad when it warms up some. My workshop is 40F today (just = outside Little Rock, AR). I know that I get no sympathy from you guys up= North, but my hands just HATE cold. OK, enough bitching for the moment. Ken Powell Hi Ken, nope, they never are : ) On the low water pump thing, I used to feel the same way until I had an a= ctual incident where I was loosing coolant from the system. (a malfuncti= oning pressure cap). If the pump had been at the bottom of the system, i= t would have continued to pump until it had flushed just about every drop= from the system. As it was, the pump stopped working when the level dro= pped 2 out of the 7 quarts in the system. (I know this from other past e= xperiences) The good part is, this leaves 5 quarts in the engine to cool= it while boiling away. This was enough to get me 8 miles to the nearest= airport with no engine damage. Still had about 3 quarts in the system = when I shut down. Coolant temperature was about 250 deg. as the coolant= boiled off. I was at very low throttle setting. There is a good chance I would have been calling a cab and flying the 900= miles to home on Delta if the waterpump had been able to get at all the = water in my system. =20 Tracy ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C3EDA0.CD409D60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Ah, things are never simple. This is probably= another of those items that will show different results based on how the= experiment (our radiators) is set up. I REALLY want a low mounted = water pump and will reconsider this approach. I'll try to get to th= e junk yard in the next couple of weeks and identify some donor cars (Toy= ota) for a 2 outlet water pump.

I'll sure be glad when it w= arms up some. My workshop is 40F today (just outside Little Rock, A= R). I know that I get no sympathy from you guys up North, but my ha= nds just HATE cold. OK, enough bitching for the moment.

Ken = Powell

Hi Ken, nope, they never are : )

On the low = water pump thing, I used to feel the same way until I had an actual incid= ent where I was loosing coolant from the system. (a malfunctioning = pressure cap). If the pump had been at the bottom of the system, it= would have continued to pump until it had flushed just about every drop = from the system. As it was, the pump stopped working when the level= dropped 2 out of the 7 quarts in the system. (I know this from oth= er past experiences) The good part is, this leaves 5 quarts in the = engine to cool it while boiling away. This was enough to&= nbsp;get me 8 miles to the nearest airport with no engine damag= e. Still had about 3 quarts in the system when I shut down.&n= bsp; Coolant temperature was about 250 deg. as the coolan= t boiled off. I was at very low throttle setting.

There is a= good chance I would have been calling a cab and flying the 900 miles to = home on Delta if the waterpump had been able to get at all the water in m= y system.

Tracy

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