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Re: Overheating Problems

To: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>, <Chris.Brucciani@ercgroup.com>,
Subject: Re: Overheating Problems
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:53:44 -0400
Sid,

No, just one - 7 lbs, at least for the 1600s & 2000s. I can't answer for the
1500s.

Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
To: <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>; <Chris.Brucciani@ercgroup.com>;
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: Overheating Problems


> Unless I am mistaken, there were 3 different pressure caps used on the
> roadsters.  The 1500s used 3-4lb caps, the early 1600s used 7 lb caps and
> the 67.5 - 70 cars used a 13 - 15lb cap.
>
> Sid
>
>
> >From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
> >To: <Chris.Brucciani@ercgroup.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >Subject: Re: Overheating Problems
> >Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 08:48:52 -0400
> >
> >A higher pressure should make the car run cooler, not hotter. The
Roadster
> >uses 7 lb. pressure caps.
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <Chris.Brucciani@ercgroup.com>
> >To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> >Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:01 AM
> >Subject: Overheating Problems
> >
> >
> > > Dave Stoll wrote - "Could some of the "spiking temps" have come from a
> >weak
> > > pressure cap
> > > which could not always hold pressure which would keep the temp down?"
> > >
> > > One thing I notice on my car is that on the overflow the pressure cap
is
> > > rated at 13lbs.  I remember something about the proper pressure being
in
> >the
> > > 5lb. neighborhood.   Could this be a contributing factor to my highway
> > > overheating?  Drove it in to work this am - temp. gauge reading right
> >down
> > > the middle.  BTW - visual inspection of my radiator core does not
reveal
> >any
> > > corrosion and I have the factory air deflector under the car.  Weird.
> > >
> > > Marietta, GA
> > > 1968 2000
> > > 1973 240Z
>
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