Al Gietzen wrote:

Now the reason why.

The lower hose from the water pump blew off. The reason was that I had

fitted a thick walled pipe from the engine to the pressurised overflow
bottle. The bore

of the pipe was too small to take a large flow of water as the engine

heated up.

Ian;

Very sorry to hear about your accident.
I'd be interested in knowing how large the pipe was.  This gets attention
because I installed a 1/4" aluminum line as an overflow pipe from the
pressure cap to the overflow bottle, and thought later it may be too small.
It doesn't jeopardize the system because what the line can't handle would
escape through the upper gasket of the cap; but it would make a mess and
result in some coolant loss which wouldn't recover on cooldown.

Al

 
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