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Julian B

posted on 18/5/05 at 09:34 AM Reply With Quote
Inline radiator cap

Hi all

Does any one know where you can get a radiator cap fitting which fits in line into a top hose?
I have seen these used in some cobras when the top hose passes higher than the top of the engine.

Thanks

Julian B

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britishtrident

posted on 18/5/05 at 10:09 AM Reply With Quote
Not strickly speaking the exact info you seek but in the same area.

A more than few years back I had to solve the problem of putting a raddiator cap on to a steel swirl pot --- attempts at brazing/soldering didn't work so I welded a steel stub pipe on to the swirl pot and made a filler neck by soft soldering the raddiator cap fitting removed from a Viva brass/copper raddiator to a brass top hose stub pipe removed from the the same rad. I then joined it to the swirl pot with a short length of straight raddiator hose.

[Edited on 18/5/05 by britishtrident]

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bigandy

posted on 18/5/05 at 11:50 AM Reply With Quote
I've got a radiator cap from a MK1 MR2 that sounds like what you describe. It's like a bit of tubing that allows you to attach two hoses (water cooling hoses) to it, and in the middle there is the radiator cap.

I need the one I have for my car, but I'm sure you should be able to find one in a scrapped mk1 MR2...

Andy





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jimmyjonga

posted on 18/5/05 at 01:55 PM Reply With Quote
i am sure i have seen one in either the burton or demon tweeks catalogues, but as they are not to hand can't say which one....

james

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Glan Noye

posted on 18/5/05 at 05:10 PM Reply With Quote
I made one of these some years ago.I went to a plumbers merchants for a copper T piece and soldered on a neck from an old brass radiator.I used a non pressure cap and used the overflow pipe to feed a header tank.This bled off any air in the system.It worked very well. The header tank had a larger pipe as well which I teed into one of the the heater hoses.Glan.

[Edited on 18/5/05 by Glan Noye]

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big_wasa

posted on 22/5/05 at 04:10 PM Reply With Quote
Just over 25 quid from demon tweaks


http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/catalogue/product_detail.asp?PCODE=MSD63730&GRP=MP038&PGRP=M003&CLS=MSPORT&code=MSD63730&from=search

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