gary hradek wrote: > David, > You make a very good point but as big as those > hoses are they are under pressure all the way back to > the back while the bleeder hole has zero pressure??? > I know that if I had an equivalent size hole in the > blue cap in the back it would spray like a artery. Actually, if you had a hole in the cap the system wouldn't pressurize, and you'd get almost nothing out of it. I once drove about 20 miles with my expansion tank cap loose before I figured out why I was running slightly warmer than usual. I lost maybe a cup of coolant, just what thermal expansion pushed out the top. Unlike the radiator there's no flow in this location to create dynamic pressure. -- David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 VW Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si -- For Sale '86 Volvo 240DL wagon |
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