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02-14-2012, 04:21 PM
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How did YOU block off your heater return in your coolant mixing manifold? I've been searching for days, the closest I've found is a reference to a 7/8" freeze plug which is not going in correctly.
How did YOU block off your heater return in your coolant mixing manifold? I've been searching for days, the closest I've found is a reference to a 7/8" freeze plug which is not going in correctly.
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02-14-2012, 04:51 PM
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I have no heater core anymore (I do have a reroute, with no need to use the heater return anymore with how I did it), and I'd rather block off the return at the mixing manifold than at the pipe. It's just simply cleaning up the engine bay, nothing more, but it's turning into a hell of a headache.
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02-14-2012, 05:56 PM
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Don't use a bolt, hood rat. Buy a stainless grub screw in the correct diameter and epoxy or red loctite it in. The difference in doing it like a hoodlum working on a Monte Carlo and like a professional is pennies and 2 days to get parts from McMaster. There is no excuse.
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02-14-2012, 06:01 PM
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Don't use a bolt, hood rat. Buy a stainless grub screw in the correct diameter and epoxy or red loctite it in. The difference in doing it like a hoodlum working on a Monte Carlo and like a professional is pennies and 2 days to get parts from McMaster. There is no excuse.
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02-14-2012, 06:44 PM
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I believe I had a plate welded over it and then drilled and tapped that, and it now has a 1/2"(?) NPT plug in it.
I was originally going to use an -AN line for the heater return there, but I found T-ing into the lower radiator hose was cleaner and cheaper. Hence the plug.
I was originally going to use an -AN line for the heater return there, but I found T-ing into the lower radiator hose was cleaner and cheaper. Hence the plug.
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