Howdy and good afternoon fellow Bitogers:
Home for lunch right now which consists of leftover fried chicken, mustard greens, black-eyed peas and for desert, boiled eggs pickled in beet juice.
Meanwhile, the on-going saga of the "Bluesmobile" cooling system continues. (The happy but tired "Bluesmobile" is a 1993 Ford Taurus GL, 3.0 V-6).
Radiator on said "Bluesmobile" started leaking the beginning of this week. Check the upper hose, (which I replaced last November) and sure enough, the clamp next to the rad was loose. Tightened it only to discover there is a small crack on the composite side of the rad below the hose. It only leaks when pressure builds, so in my travels today, I loosen the cap and ran with it loose. Temp guage ran below normal, (about 1/3 on gauge).
My thinking is this, the car is 20 years old, (soon to be 21 and a legal drinker - perhaps that's the reason it's started leaking). The transmission is living on borrowed time. The interior is almost a carbon copy of the vehicle Mad Max drives in "The Road Warrior" and the exterior is painted flat black with a flat white roof. While the back tires are somewhat new, the front tires are cracked and worn. Long story short, this car ain't worth much and I really can't see the wisdom of dumping more money into the ole gal.
Therefore, rather than install a new radiator, what is the problem of simply running full time with the rad cap loose? It doesn't overheat and the coolant is low enough it doesn't splash out.
My old 1950 Case tractor is not a sealed cooling system and it has run that way for decades, (coming from the factory that way). What would be the problem with running the long suffering "Bluesmobile" in the same manner?
Thoughts, opinions, menus for dinner tonight?
Home for lunch right now which consists of leftover fried chicken, mustard greens, black-eyed peas and for desert, boiled eggs pickled in beet juice.
Meanwhile, the on-going saga of the "Bluesmobile" cooling system continues. (The happy but tired "Bluesmobile" is a 1993 Ford Taurus GL, 3.0 V-6).
Radiator on said "Bluesmobile" started leaking the beginning of this week. Check the upper hose, (which I replaced last November) and sure enough, the clamp next to the rad was loose. Tightened it only to discover there is a small crack on the composite side of the rad below the hose. It only leaks when pressure builds, so in my travels today, I loosen the cap and ran with it loose. Temp guage ran below normal, (about 1/3 on gauge).
My thinking is this, the car is 20 years old, (soon to be 21 and a legal drinker - perhaps that's the reason it's started leaking). The transmission is living on borrowed time. The interior is almost a carbon copy of the vehicle Mad Max drives in "The Road Warrior" and the exterior is painted flat black with a flat white roof. While the back tires are somewhat new, the front tires are cracked and worn. Long story short, this car ain't worth much and I really can't see the wisdom of dumping more money into the ole gal.
Therefore, rather than install a new radiator, what is the problem of simply running full time with the rad cap loose? It doesn't overheat and the coolant is low enough it doesn't splash out.
My old 1950 Case tractor is not a sealed cooling system and it has run that way for decades, (coming from the factory that way). What would be the problem with running the long suffering "Bluesmobile" in the same manner?
Thoughts, opinions, menus for dinner tonight?