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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
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!!! VERY IMPORTANT POINT !!! As hot as some of these BIRDS get, I wonder why there are not more failures. Here is the info thread from y-blocksforever - http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/To...ate=1#bm161912
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
- INFO BROUGHT OVER FROM y-blocks.forever - Quote:
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
Those pumps have been superceeded by a new design.
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09-04-2022, 02:47 AM | #106 | |
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
Another excerpt from !!! - Y-BlocksForvever - !!!
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09-05-2022, 08:05 PM | #110 |
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
There is no problem running a rubber hose as the overflow tube. My 48 with a 302 has been running one for 40 years.
My 56 Bird has the overflow tube on the right (passenger side) with what looks like a stock radiator.
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09-05-2022, 08:12 PM | #111 | |
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IMO, one would want to keep (I would hope) a BIRD as original as possible. We aren't talking RESTO-MOD here. If someone just wants a cheap fix, AUTOZONE is the place to be to ask questions.
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09-05-2022, 08:15 PM | #112 |
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
And we are not talking a Concours car either.
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09-05-2022, 08:43 PM | #113 |
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
There are certain things you do to an automobile and certain things you don't. I don't think he is using the car as an everyday beater.
Can you guess as to a person's ability when he opens the hood and all that is seen is duct tape and baling wire?
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09-06-2022, 08:10 PM | #114 |
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Re: Checking radiator for overheating problem with 1956 Thunderbird
I hardly think that a rubber overflow hose is in the same league with duct tape and bailing wire.. Of course, everything had to be done correctly.
Just to let you know, I have a 56 Bird - and I take special pains to make sure anything I do is done correctly, safely and neatly. Same with my other two cars. And I wouldn't suggest to any one else to do something different. And I resent the hint/suggestion that I would advise someone to do a hack job on a car (or anything else)
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