DeTomaso Mailing List: March 2000, Message #116

MikeLDrew@aol.com wrote:

> Ernest wrote:
> >Also, the pipe that goes INTO the radiator has a small 'nipple' on it - about
> 3/8 inch with a 12" long piece of tubing connected but it is simple blocked
> off with a bolt.  Any ideas what someone might have had connected here at
> some time?
>
> >>>For awhile, the brainiacs at DeTomaso and/or Ford thought that you could take advantage of this high point in the cooling system and bleed air off the system.  The hose ran from the radiator, down underneath the car, and then up and into the overflow tank I believe?  At some point people figured out that air would have a tough time falling down two feet, moving backwards six feet and then up three feet, and later cars had this bleed port simply capped off as yours is.
>
> Mike

Which as I recall, is illustrated in the Ford Pantera TSB's, which you DO have, right?.  Amazing how you can read through the TSB's and find one mod, that was  later undone.  This is one of them.

Asa Jay


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