> I rebuilt my block and radiator taps a month or two ago. They are pretty
> simple to do on the bench, but as I recall the spring was the weakest link
> in the assembly, and I couldn't find one locally that was the
> right size and
> tension.
Neither the tension nor the size is all that critical ... I just grabbed the
closest thing out of the parts bin and cut it to length with nippers. My
originals were so badly corroded that one of them broke when I compressed it
to remove the cotter pin and the other had essentially no tension left.
Randall
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