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rivcokid · 09-04-2021, 06:14 PM

Hi all - I was talking to some people at cars and coffee this morning with my 35 Fordor. One person indicated that the reason the engines ran hot was that the water did not spend very much time in the radiator. He said his father would put washers in the hose connections to impede the flow, and would also remove every other fan blade on the water pumps to slow things down. He contended that it worked and the engine ran somewhat cooler.

Does that make sense to those of you with vastly more experience with these things? I'm not having an issue right now and won't be undertaking this at the moment, but it made at least momentary sense to me.

Thanks for your input!

09-04-2021, 06:14 PM	#1
rivcokid Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2018 Location: Riverside, CA Posts: 174	Running cooler - does this make sense? Hi all - I was talking to some people at cars and coffee this morning with my 35 Fordor. One person indicated that the reason the engines ran hot was that the water did not spend very much time in the radiator. He said his father would put washers in the hose connections to impede the flow, and would also remove every other fan blade on the water pumps to slow things down. He contended that it worked and the engine ran somewhat cooler. Does that make sense to those of you with vastly more experience with these things? I'm not having an issue right now and won't be undertaking this at the moment, but it made at least momentary sense to me. Thanks for your input!