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At 16:05 23/04/2003, you wrote:
Go to a junk yard & find a 10 year old Volvo.
Is there
something special about the old Volvo tank that makes it worth looking for?
Seems to me that what you're getting is the benefits of metrication...
In my imagination, I see a some Swedish designers discussing how big an overflow bottle they'll need, and the answer is (with appropriate muppet Swedish chef accent) "about a litre [woop de woop, bork, bork, bork]". So the Volvo has a 1-litre overflow bottle. Compare this with some Detroit car designers... "How big an overflow bottle? Oh, about a quart or so".
For the metrically challenged, 1 litre = 2.2 pints = 1.1 quarts. So a Volvo's overflow bottle will be 10% bigger than an American overflow bottle.
Of course, this theory would suggest that a standard Mazda overflow bottle ought to be 1 litre in size.
But it's still a good story. :-)
Frank
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