Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way!
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08-03-2007, 12:08
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Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way!
Kurt,
I'd love to see the photos ... you can send 'em to me at aeonix1@... or post 'em somewhere where I can download them. You say "weld" in your description. That worries me a bit as I have no experience as a welder nor do I have any welding equipment. As for the radiator core, someone on this list had suggested a core vendor as being "good". I called them and they gave me referrals to several radiator shops in northern California. (I'm afraid that I no longer have the vendor's name.) One of those referrals had an ad in my local yellow pages with a claim that they did "heavy equipment." After calling and discussing my situation with the owner, I discovered that he had a contract with one of our local transit districts to do the radiator work on transit busses. He showed me a core made for the transit bus that had round tubes in a staggered pattern through the core rather than the oblong, semi-rectangular tubes in the standard BB core. He claimed that the "new" design was more efficient at cooling. He ordered it from the vendor whose name I can no longer remember. I was invited to come every day to the shop and view the work that was being done -- which I did. The radiator shop owner was an avid RVer, so he even had a 50 amp circuit available to plug in the coach while his shop was working on it -- in addition, he had a 24 hour watchman that lived (in a trailer) at the back of the property. The bill came to about $4000 -- but that included about $1000 work on the AC system as well as changing out the radiator core. The core itself was $800 or so (with exchange). Most of the expense was the labor required to get the old radiator out and then put the new radiator back in place. Labor rates are typical for the San Francisco Bay Area (not cheap). In the (nearly) a year since I had the radiator work done, I haven't had an overheating incident -- indeed, the water temp rarely goes above about 180-190. I was thinking about adding a watering system (as discussed on this list a few weeks ago), but am less likely to now. The only heating concern I now have is the oil temp seems to run up to the maximum of the 'safe' range on some steep grades (especially on a warm afternoon), but the water temperature is still in the middle of the safe range. This is more of a personal 'heart burn' problem in that the engine doesn't actually seem to be overheated, but it sure makes me nervous. Pete Masterson '95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42 El Sobrante CA aeonix1@... On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:07 PM, bumpersbird wrote: > > I got my Racor CCV6000 with the hose kit from Shurst Corp. 4Wright > St. New Bedford Mass. 02740 508-999-3261. It was about $380.00 > with shipping more or less. All the other sources I checked wanted a > few hundred more! Shurst sells a lot of Marine products I found them > on e-bay, their selling name is 4land4sea and they have 100% feedback. <snip> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - bumpersbird - 08-01-2007, 13:40
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - Tom McCarthy - 08-01-2007, 17:18
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - Pete Masterson - 08-02-2007, 06:19
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - erniecarpet@... - 08-03-2007, 05:46
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - erniecarpet@... - 08-03-2007, 08:51
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - bumpersbird - 08-03-2007, 09:07
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - bumpersbird - 08-03-2007, 09:31
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - bumpersbird - 08-03-2007, 09:53
Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way! - Pete Masterson - 08-03-2007 12:08
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