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Old April 22nd 13, 07:44 PM posted to rec.autos.misc,alt.home.repair
Ashton Crusher[_2_]
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Default radiator caps, cooling system pressure

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:40:35 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:21:32 -0700, Ashton Crusher >
>wrote:
>
>>I was thinking of putting a higher pressure cap on one of my cars to
>>increase the factor of safety against boiling.

>
>
>How often does that happen? If it is frequent, you have other
>problems that need to be fixed. Last time I had a boil over was
>probably in the 1960's or so.
>
>This is not the proper thing to do. The engineers have put a lot of
>work into getting the right temperature and pressures and you think
>you can do a better job? Really?


It would just change it to the pressure for AC cars. For it's first
52 years of use it was without AC. I added AC to it.
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