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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [xj-s] Plugged Rads
At 02:11 PM 7/13/98 +0000, Kirbert wrote:
>1) Just why would you think these screens would be "small area"?
They would be 2" in diameter. Thats small area when compaired to the
entire vertical crossection of a radiator.
>2) Just why would you think these screens would plug up any faster
>than the radiator itself?
Because they are designed to plug up. Thats what screens are for, stoping
debris, i.e. pluging up. If they dont plug up they are passing the debris,
so why have them? The radiator is not designed to stop debris unless its
huge. Otherwise it passes it.
>3) Even if they DID plug quickly, the fix would only involve
>disconnecting the upper radiator hoses, taking the filter assemblies
>out, and backflushing them with a garden hose.
Try that on a back road when the temperature is 105 degrees and your engine
is hot already. A radiator gives you enough time, months, to do something
about it and there is a guage in the dash that tells you when it is
plugging up.
All you need is for a sudden release of matter from somewhere in the engine
and the whole frontal area of the filter would be plugged in just a few
minutes time and you are running through the back woods of Bung Fk arabia
in a 110 degree heat wave.
NO THANKS, I think the auto manugfactuers knew what they were doing when
they left the filters off the coolant line.
Cheers, Jim
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