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Basically it is what is in my "valve" box. I have a rather eclectic collection of valves I have squirrelled away over the years. Most of them new.
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What did you do to your deuce this week?
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gimpyrobb
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Just pour some black pepper in till you can get home to fix it. The pepper will plug the leak.
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I've never had any luck using the Black Pepper trick myself. That's why I always carry spare hoses for all the coolant lines. Upper and lower radiator hoses, 10ft of 5/8" hose and the hose for the manifold water jacket and oil cooler. You never know what will give out on you.
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G'day everyone,.....
Well I got it home by removing the radiator cap so the system could not pressurise and force water out the hole.
I stopped several times on the 360+ klm one way trip home to check the coolant level, I only put 2ltrs of water in it at the last stop.
The temp only just made it to 180 deg F after a series of medium hill climbs, mostly the trip is down hill to home.
I was lucky to never get any high temps. I would have stopped if it tried to go above 180 deg to let things cool.
I think I actual do have that hose amongst my spares and its ironic that that hose is the one hose the previous owner didn't get around to replacing!
Aussie.
Well I got it home by removing the radiator cap so the system could not pressurise and force water out the hole.
I stopped several times on the 360+ klm one way trip home to check the coolant level, I only put 2ltrs of water in it at the last stop.
The temp only just made it to 180 deg F after a series of medium hill climbs, mostly the trip is down hill to home.
I was lucky to never get any high temps. I would have stopped if it tried to go above 180 deg to let things cool.
I think I actual do have that hose amongst my spares and its ironic that that hose is the one hose the previous owner didn't get around to replacing!
Aussie.
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G'day everyone,....
Think I'm going to flush and refill with this coolant:
http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products.php?id_categ=22&id_subcateg=157&id_products=755
Or maybe this is better:
http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products.php?id_categ=22&id_subcateg=157&id_products=757
Aussie.
Think I'm going to flush and refill with this coolant:
http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products.php?id_categ=22&id_subcateg=157&id_products=755
Or maybe this is better:
http://www.penriteoil.com.au/products.php?id_categ=22&id_subcateg=157&id_products=757
Aussie.
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You know, I put expensive, long lasting, made for big rig diesels, orange coolant in my deuce and I regret it. Not because of the quality because surely it is excellent, but I don't think it was worth it. Also, regular green automotive antifreeze coolant is so much easier to find, and cheaper and then I wouldn't have to keep track of two separate coolants in my garage - I could have just kept extra of the same one that all my vehicles use. Plus, you feel less worse when you spill any or it leaks from the truck for any number of reasons.
So from me, go with regular green coolant. It's what the Utah National Guard had in the truck anyway before I drained it and flushed the system 3 years ago.
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Picked up the windshield from the glass place. It has modern style glued in glass. This truck is getting A/C so I don't need the flip out windows and this provides a good seal. Plus when I get the trim on the outside it will look stock. I guess I should start updating my build thread since I've done a lot. 
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That's really neat looking! I've never seen such a mod. Cool.
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A lot of the newer Green Anti-freeze is Diesel compatible now with additives.
Usually written on the label.
You can always add a little supplement if needed.
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That looks nice.
You say "modern-style"; and it looks like your glass is double-pane with an insulating layer; and you got to figure it's tempered.
Is the old deuce glass NOT tempered (or laminated)? Do you know?
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Stock glass is laminated.
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Stock glass is laminated.[/QUOTE]
Thanks, gimpyrobb.
You had to figure that; but until I saw that post by Clay James I never gave it gave it any thought, or considered it.
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This is typical laminated windshield glass. Stock glass is definitely laminated. I'm not sure about the side windows though. Legally all windshields have to be laminated glass. On some of the older vehicles like my 1948 Ford ALL the glass is laminated.
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I've seen them done Jeep style with a gasket and decided I didn't like that look on a deuce. I just got this idea in my head and went with it.
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Tired of looking at the Deuce just sitting there.
Maybe I can just hitch something up and go away for a couple of whiles.
Maybe I can just hitch something up and go away for a couple of whiles.
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I drained some old fuel out of a co-workers corvette project (so they could add fresh fuel) and then chunked it in the M35A2 fuel tank. I love free fuel!
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yea, update the build thread. I need something to motivate me.
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From the connection at the rear of the block, where did you route that hose? The way I have mine routed, wouldn't it basically bypass the thermostat when the stat is closed? Feeding hot water to the heater and then returning the water to the rad side of the stat? Sorry if I am making it complicated. Also, Do you find that your coolant filter works well with the locations you have the hoses connected? Thank you sir.
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First off the filter works fine. It never was designed to clean all the coolant at once but to slowly pick-up the crud as time went along. The hose at the back of the block actually feeds into my coolant heater I bought from a member here (Derby) . It was originally just a drain for the block.
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Finally got photos from the photographers site from the show in Dec (see page 624 of this thread for my original post). As promised, here they are.
