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what to do w/water bypass hose

Old 03-10-2008, 07:37 AM
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not sure what you call it, it goes from head to head, and heated the orig. throttle assembly-i guess it relives some air from the system
should i run it to the inlet side of the radiator? i saw one pic of a fitting in the w/p and used that way, trouble is if the pump is replaced, you have to drill and tap it-what if i cut the upper hose, installed a short piece of tubing, drilled and tapped that for a fitting, then ran the hose from there
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i am running a carb for now
Old 03-10-2008, 09:59 AM
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Not sure what your installing it in but I took my brass raditator down and had a 3/8 hose fitting brazed in the tank for 35$.
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So what if you have to modify a new water pump? It'll look a lot better than hacking it into the radiator hose.
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i did the radiator fitting on my 69 camaro. on my S10 i used a piece of pipe and brazed a fitting into it and put it right in the hose to the radiator like you are talking about. seems to work just fine. I would think taping into the waterpump would work ok too.
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I spliced into the upper radiator hose with this hose Tee I made.

I believe I read somewhere that the LT1 vettes use something like this Tee. But I made mine before I researched Wasted a whole 10min making it!




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