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Offline thereverendbill

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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2011, 10:42:09 PM »
best of luck on your project jim
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2011, 08:49:20 AM »
Those little squishable foam ear plugs work great in some applications and are only pennies : ) I use them in threaded holes when painting to keep the paint out of the threads, but have used them to plug up liquids too.
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2011, 01:11:34 PM »
Now there is my kind of idea.  Thanks.
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2011, 06:09:42 PM »
maybe I should buy a few thousand of them, and repackage them and sell them as a new idea ! : )
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2011, 07:26:10 PM »
I'm sure you could charge more for them if you sell them as Control Devices for whjatever
or as a safety feature or as green enviromental devices............
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I'm right 98% of the time, and I don't care about the other 3%.
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people;
that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:45
What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not understand?
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(There's more to life than fuel mileage)
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2011, 09:50:20 AM »
Jim,
     How did you manage to get your lines removed from the radiator?I 've hit the fittings with Pen oil and let sit for a couple days and it still seems as if the bottom of the radiator will give before the fitting do,would a small torch be better? Rambler mentality don't want to damage anything I don't need to.
 I like 68AMXGOPAC's idea of ear plugs :).and j2sax's inline dedundant cooler idea  8).
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2011, 09:41:19 PM »
Quote from: philotomy on May 29, 2011, 09:50:20 AM
Jim,
     How did you manage to get your lines removed from the radiator?I 've hit the fittings with Pen oil and let sit for a couple days and it still seems as if the bottom of the radiator will give before the fitting do,would a small torch be better? Rambler mentality don't want to damage anything I don't need to.
 I like 68AMXGOPAC's idea of ear plugs :).and j2sax's inline dedundant cooler idea  8).

Use two wrenches to do the job. I used vice grips the hold the fitting that is attached to the rad and a flare nut wrench for the line nut.

You could also do a partial fluid change with the lines off. I used a foot long heater hose to direct the fluid from the line to a bucket. Then started the car in neutral until 3L of old fluid was in the bucket then shut the car off (use water to measure and mark the bucket first). Then just top up the trans when everything is back together.
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #22 on: May 29, 2011, 10:07:12 PM »
The ear plugs didn't work for me.  I have fought so many issues that I don't remember what did work.  Another thing that didn't work for me is trying to tie rubber gloves over the ends.
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I'm right 98% of the time, and I don't care about the other 3%.
"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people;
that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:45
What part of "shall not be infringed" do they not understand?
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Re: plug cooler lines
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2011, 11:04:19 AM »
Funny you mention that,I couldn't find any ear plugs so I put a glove on with a zip tie to hold it .
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