[Tigers] Thermostat Housing

[Jay Laifman]

Wow, Thanks for bringing back that information.  Now I have to rethink what
cover to use!  Yeah, he had a way of being right about these types of
things . . . I guess I'd have to worry about what part is next on the list
to be the sacrificial metal.

The rest of the car is fantastic.  I was actually driving back from a
Malibu car show where Jay Leno, Patrick Long (Porsche factory race car
driver), and others were. As I drove in and again when I drove out, I heard
people say "look at that nice Tiger."  Sure is a cool feeling!  One guy
even came up to tell me how great the exhaust sounded - again, dad's
insistence on that H pipe, I'm sure.

Then, on the way home, as I was just finishing coming through the canyon
about 4 miles from home, it was such a glorious drive, that I turned around
to do it again!

Sadly, that's when I noticed the water spray coming up through the LAT
hood.  So back around I went.  I watched the temp like a hawk and even
turned on the extra radiator fan my dad put in.  Stayed just below 200 the
rest of the way home (all of 4 miles).


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:34 PM, Gary Winblad <garywinblad at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Jay,
> Yes there is..   I remember your dad's posts about it.
> He found its cheap zinc and therefore provided the perfect sacrificial
> metal to protect the other
> parts of the engine/cooling system.  Not sure I bought into the theory but
> maybe..  Since it corroded a hole,
> maybe he was right, he WAS a very smart rocket scientist!  We all miss him.
> How IS the rest of the system?
> Gary
>
>
> On 4/3/2017 8:18 AM, Jay Laifman via Tigers wrote:
>
>> Is there anything special about the Tiger thermostat housing?  Mine seems
>> to have developed a hole through the metal right on top - spraying all over
>> the place.  And yes, it appear to be coming straight out of the metal, not
>> the hose.
>>
>>
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