Dick, Warm the motor up to operating temp. Disconnect the water pump
belt. Take the radiator cap off. Make sure it's full of water. Start the
motor and load it as best you can and rev it up. The water should not
move unless you are getting compression pressure into the cooling
system. Sounds like that's what is happening to me. Doug Odom in big ditch
richard spencer wrote:
>hi, my name is dick spencer and i live in garland utah. i race a 80
>monza in e/cbga and through the help of the list i t ran good( 190mph)
>and handled good(thanks lsr385) for the advice on putting castor in it.
>BUT it did some things i could use some opinions on. first run it blew
>the radiator cap off. figuring i just hadn't tightened it i ran it
>again, blew the radiator cap off again, so i safety wired it so it
>couldn't come off , instead it blew the radiator hose that goes to the
>water pump off. the cap is mounted on the engine since the engine is
>higher than the radiator. i took the radiator cap off while the engine
>was running and water gushed out when i rev the engine. i also checked
>the head gaskets and the were ok. thanks in advance dick spencer
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