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How too, find leaks, test rafiator

buckwill

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u can find leaks and test radiators with this easy to make test kit and its cheap,,u need air, not much 20 psi is plenty, an inexpensive 5 to 15 psi regulator, harbor freight has paint regulator w/guage for 5.99$ some short air hose, mebbe an air hose connector, a short piece of radiator hose the size of your upper rad hose, a piece of pipe the size of your upper radiator nub,pvc works ok,,,,, now drain enough coolant that u can remove upper rad hose without making a mess, hook up your tester hose to radiator,, nub inside the ,, i forgot,, u need a pvc tee with bushed down to quater inch so u can hook your air hose adapter to the upper rad hose device u just made with large size of rad hoses in and out,, hook this into upper rad hose and set air to no more than is stated on rad cap,, it is better to test rad or for leaks at night or in darkened garage, set air to just under set point as noted on rad cap,, get underneath and u will be able to see any leaks and see where its coming from,, even tho it mak take an hour to get a slow leak going,, howerver driving the engine wont blow antifreeze around engine,,, u will be able to see the track or see stream and if not u will see where it piles up and general location
,, some time if your water pump is just at fail point u may have to shake the fan to get leak started, i have made about three of these,, 4,, usually given them away to admirers, just had to have it, or borrowed but never returned,, u know how that is,, a borrower keeps something long enough,, they think it belongs to them,, buck
 












in 2000 or maybe 2001, i arrested stroked twice in decembre and again in jan,, on jan 13 i was given a pacemaker in emer surgery,,im on my second pacemaker,, for quite a while i cudn talk, i found i couldnt rember the names of my tools,, i knew what they were,, i jst couldnt say the names,,my i might try to say go to,, my brain might substititee goat,thats one i remeber, most i do not,, if i try to fix my writing it gets worse, what looks correct to me is filtered and strained my "normal soumds, looks like filter" and i see what i expect to see, and it still mostly looks like as it did,, this is very distresssing to me,, i was a master millwaright machinist, i was sharp and new it, the people i worked for considered me sharp, my job calls and work asssignments reflected that,,i had numbers,, hundreds of math formulas on call, patrs numbers, every phone number i needed, every license plate i ever had, now i hardly remember my home phone,, but that is history, this is what i have now,, correct punctuaion is a thing of the past,, correct grammar and syntaxt is a dim memory,, i do not choose to cumminicate like this,, who would,, but it is what i have,, ask me to practice spelling as many have done is just a lesson in frustration, i am saddened and angered by my lose of communication, but practise,, try harder, learn to talk proper before u talk to us,,, does not work,, this is what i have and is not going to get better in any significant numbers less than years or not at all,, i am gratefull to be alive not in some VA hospital drooling, having my diaper changed perhaps every other day, staring at some spot on the ceiling,, if you cannot tolerate my lack of polite, correct language, punctuation, context, let me know now because practice and all the desire i have is not going to improve this,, this is the best i have at the moment, thanks for your concern for my languause skills and your desire ti help me improve,, if i have no place here let me know now, so that i can withdraw gracefully, buck
 






Understood bro, just takes slightly longer to read. As mentioned, great intention and good job! :thumbsup:
 






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