DeTomaso Mailing List: September 2000, Message #32

Just how did you fix the radiator baffle along side the road?

Dave "thats a tough one" D

At 04:52 PM 9/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Laurie,
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>If you aren't tinkling antifreeze out the expansion tank overflow when you 
>shut the car off or you don't hear loud rumbling noises eminating from the 
>engine compartment or if you can touch the top radiator hose with your bare 
>hands for a few moments....you aren't overheating and either is you car.
>
>The item Bobby told you about is called a resistor and it goes in the wire 
>leading from your sending unit to your guage.  It just makes it read lower
by 
>"tricking" the electrical impulses that the sending unit sends to the guage.
>
>Your sending unit will read hot all the time if you got a sending unit for
an 
>idiot light rather than a guage.  You need to specify what sending unit you 
>want when you purchase one.
>
>I remember when I had a serious problem with my first Pantera's radiator.  
>The baffle inside the radiator separated from the tank which made the water 
>go into the radiator but not through it.  It just came right back out.  
>Needless to say, things got hot in a hurry.  My guage suddenly began 
>rising......lots of rumbling noises were heard (even over the sound of the 
>car)....sounded like someone was beating the car with a hammer!   Then the 
>explosion....one of the rubber hoses underneath the car went kapluey!  Shut 
>the car off.....coasted to the side of the road.....lots more 
>rumbling....lots of steam....you get the idea.  THAT is what an overheating 
>Pantera REALLY acts like.
>
>There are more details but they are too gory to note.  On the bright side, I 
>fixed the car on the side of the road and drove it home some 175 miles 
>without any major problems happening to the motor.  A true testiment to the 
>resiliance of a Cleveland!
>
>Jim Demick
>New Mexico 
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