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Greetings,
"Yee of
little faith" here decided to believe Ed, and not install bleed
fittings in the top of my evap cores. Today's log follows. I imagine
the mechanical pump would have done the job in several iterations of
running, but I don't want to have to go through that every time I drain
and fill the system. Fortunately, I left the cores clecoed to the
mounting brackets for just such a reason. I'll be welding 1/8" pieces
to the top of one tank on each core, and threading it for 1/8 NPT. If
I can find a nice petcock locally, I'll use that, otherwise, just a
plug for now.
3-14-04
Did
a lot of fiddly things to get ready to fill and start the engine. Unfortunately, when trying to fill the water, I
couldn’t. The EWP wouldn’t pump, because it
wasn’t primed. It can’t get primed, because
there’s no water in the evap cores. There’s no
water in the evap cores, because I listened to Ed and didn’t install
fittings in the top to bleed out the air :-) Installation
of the bleed fittings is under way. There was
also a pinhole leak in one of the EWP flanges. I need to fire my
welder. It has now been “JB welded” within an
inch of it’s life. If it leaks now, I’ll just
have to throw it away.
Cheers,
Rusty (Ed, you
owe me a beer <g>)