In a message dated 12/13/2001 10:21:59 PM Mountain Standard Time,
twakeman@cruzers.com writes:
> Never occured to you to wonder why the factory went to all the trouble to
> design and build in this useless bypass of the radiator?
>
> Plug the pypass and very little coolent flows inside the engine & head
> until the thermostat opens.
>
> Since heat cannot be quickly conducted away from the cylinders, hot spots
> develop. These can be hot
Anyone know how this story is substantiated? The factory connection ? I'd
never heard it till lately, but I've only been fooling with the 4 cyl since
64. The early TR2 had a problem keeping an intact head gasket that was
supposedly a factory problem fixed in the early day. I seem to remember all
the steam logic being developed . piece by piece, pretty much right on this
list. Sort of a leg bone is connected to the hip bone sort of story. I
particularly like the part about the steam and the T-stat. I guess the next
logical step is that the steam gets into the radiator and sprays unwary
pedestrians. Any other early marques have a similar bypass? I'd guess any
good physicist interested in thermal dynamics would lay this story low.
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