>At 12:14 AM 7/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>I talked with a man today (Erich VanDerhorst of Swede Hollow (Volvo,Saab
>>shop in St. Paul, MN)) who has owned a number of Healy's, Triumphs, and of
>>course Volvos. He is about seventy and has worked on/with cars his whole
>>life. Currently he's working on a Porsche 356C, if I remembered the number
>>correctly.
>>
>>The two options I've seen discussed here for radiator (cooling)
>>improvements is to add an electric fan or to modify the radiator from a
two
>>row to a three row. Erich brought up a third option - adding a coolant
>>reservoir in the cooling system. Would this provide as much improvement as
>>the other methods?
>>
>>Brad Sahr
>>brsahr(at)imation.com
>>'64 Series IV automatic (that's why I talk to the Volvo guys)
>>
>>I modified my Series I with a coolant reservoir (a.k.a. puke tank), 2
years
>ago. No difference in cooling efficiency, but it does keep antifreeze off
>the road and my garage floor when the rad is hot enough to burp it out. I
>used a 7-11 Big Gulp drink container with lid, and a long bendable soft
>drink straw. Some of you may want to use something more in keeping with
>British auto maintenance tradition, such as a giant beer can.
>Terry McKitrick
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