[Healeys] Texas cooler

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Thu Feb 19 03:49:55 MST 2009


So the carbon seal gets lifted from the impellor. That is odd as it 
should easily hold more than 1bar as is the case in most cars of the era.
Kees Oudesluijs

Alan Seigrist schreef:
> Nothing will give in the pump per se, it'll just leak water until it 
> fails.
>
> FYI, the radiator in my A90 in Hong Kong is not pressurized at all 
> (open system) - it actually keeps very cool even in the hottest 
> weather - radiator is clean, block is backflushed annually, 90% water 
> with wetter.  Pressurizing the rad doesn't really get you there, it 
> should be a last resort.
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl 
> <mailto:coudesluijs at chello.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Michael,
>     What will give in the water pump?
>     Kees Oudesluijs
>
>     Michael Salter schreef:
>
>         Be very careful about increasing the cooling system pressure.
>         I know from
>         experience that the 4 cylinder water pump will not take 12 lbs
>         and one would
>         want to check the maximum pressure of the 6 cylinder one
>         before taking that
>         step.
>
>         Michael Salter
>         100 (1953) #174
>         AHX12 (1953)
>         Bugeye (1961)
>         http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/?p=432


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