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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:07:08 -0500
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From: Dale Rogers <rogersda@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Ideal Cooling System Plumbing (was
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Jim Sower <canarder@frontiernet.net> wrote:
 
>> ... Blowby from
>> compression and/or combustion gasses forcing air into the coolant system ...
>> 

> How long would it take a coolant pressure gauge to pick up on that one??
> 

   That partly depends on how close your cap pressure is to 
the actual operating pressure.  It shouldn't take long at 
all for an compression/exhaust leak to raise coolant 
pressure to the cap pressure.  So the change in coolant 
pressure should be notable.

   An easy sanity check is a variation on Perry Mick's 
method, put a go/no-go "fluid level" detector in the overflow bottle (not the recovery tank).  It should normally 
be empty, or nearly so.  Exhaust in the coolant will fairly 
quickly push some liquid past the pressure cap and trigger 
the sensor.  Late 80's GM V-6's commonly use such a sensor 
near the top of the radiator tank - I think the current 
cost is about $35.00.

Dale R.
COZY MkIV-R #1254