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05-14-2020, 11:30 PM | #21 | |
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Ronnie i get that you done this since the dinosaurs walked the earth but sometimes you come on like a bulldozer telling itīs your way or the highway...we all have an opinion based on the sum of our fuckups... Iīm just a small shop putting out an engine a month and only having 250 blocks on the shelf but i have tried any way i could come up with saving theese blocks during the years so usually what i state is based on what i do in real. |
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05-15-2020, 02:30 PM | #22 | |
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I use the F word a lot no not that word these words Flathead , Focus and Finish. "Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club using a Ford Flathead block" Owner , Builder, Driver of the First Ford Flathead bodied roadster to run 200 MPH Record July 13, 2018 LTA timing association 200.921 in one and a half miles burning gasoline. First ever gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to run 200 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats setting the record August 7th 2021 at 205.744 MPH |
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05-15-2020, 03:26 PM | #23 | |
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05-15-2020, 05:09 PM | #24 | |
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Alan I drain the mixture usually leaving it in no more than a couple of days. Never experienced any plugging of the radiator the mixture only plugs when it gets into a leaking area. Actually amazing how it finds the leak and plugs it. Heres an example. One time I had one of my race engines with cracks on the run stand. We use smaller hoses on the race engines lots smaller than the hose size used on the run stand. To solve the hose size issue I quickly put together a bunch of fittings that I knew would leak but figured it would be good enough for the short run time needed to circulate the water and sodium silicate mixture. As I expected the quickly thrown together fittings definitely had leaks however like magic once the circulating water was around 140 degrees the leaks stopped the sodium silicate sealed everything perfectly. But theres is one draw back to the leaking water mixture it will leave stains on painted surfaces but quickly cleaning up the spills will eliminate the staining. Ronnieroadster
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I use the F word a lot no not that word these words Flathead , Focus and Finish. "Life Member of the Bonneville 200 MPH Club using a Ford Flathead block" Owner , Builder, Driver of the First Ford Flathead bodied roadster to run 200 MPH Record July 13, 2018 LTA timing association 200.921 in one and a half miles burning gasoline. First ever gas burning Ford flathead powered roadster to run 200 MPH at Bonneville Salt Flats setting the record August 7th 2021 at 205.744 MPH |
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05-15-2020, 07:51 PM | #25 | |
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Thanks for the voice of first-hand experience! Too often people seem to just repeat what they think they heard from Uncle Joe's barber's third cousin's drinking buddy. |
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05-15-2020, 11:37 PM | #26 |
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Or the crack is water to oil... So thereīs more then one aproach. Ronnie i always like hearing real life first hand knowledge, to damn many magic fixes on internet not even close to working. |
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