Date:         Mon, 8 Mar 2004 18:11:15 -0800
Reply-To:     Randy Huyck <RHuyck@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Randy Huyck <RHuyck@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: cooling system design / Reinvention of the Wheel Banished!
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Perhaps David Brodbeck should have said "there's no room for an expansion
bottle NEAR the radiator in the Vanagon."  Add another technical prob - they
would have to have put in hinges and a latch one one of the grills for
access.  Probably cheaper to put it in the back.

I've seen a number of vehicles with expansion tanks lower than the top of
the radiator H20 level - many fords and mercs, for example.  As long as the
outlet from the radiator is controlled by a functioning pressure cap, there
shouldn't be too much worry about it siphoning out coolant when it
shouldn't.

Randy, Carla and Anna Huyck
Olympia, WA