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What the hell..... I think I fucked one of my nitrous pressure gauges? I left my bottle in the car with the blanket on it saturday night after we got rained out and went to take it out this morning and I could hear a weird hissing noise coming from near the gauge and the liquid that is in the gauge is all cloudy, actually looks like grease! And I narrowed down where the hissing is coming from, seems like it's leaking at the rubber thing on the gauge. I'm really pissed too, cuz it was a full 15 lb bottle and now it's slowly emptying!!! So how the hell did this happen, can too much heat and pressure cause it? I would think that it would blow out the blow down fitting before it would blow out my damn gauge, right? Anyone else ever experience this?
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Originally Posted by foshizl
Mine did the same thing only that rubber thing blew up and spewed grease stuff all over.... what kind of setup do you have? not really sure what caused mine to do that
hahah same thing happened to mine, the pressure gauge popped, it got about 80 outside and my bottle pressure was way up there
The new gauge is working great from CFN (looks diffrerent) I havent heard of NX or NOS gauges having that problem, but I dont care to try again to see what happens
The new gauge is working great from CFN (looks diffrerent) I havent heard of NX or NOS gauges having that problem, but I dont care to try again to see what happens This is an example of why you pay more for quality parts.Some companys just buy what will work and sell cheap.Then down the line as things break it cost you more money.Those CF gauges are junk.Look into getting a NX bottle pressure gauge.They are a heck of alot better quality.If you have the coldfusion kit with the port in the side of the valve you will need a part number 15508.
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The glycerin inside the gauge can actually build pressure due to over heating (ie: sitting in the sunlight for too long, possibly in a trunk). There is a seal inside the guage that normally keeps the glycerin from seeing any pressure from the nitrous, but when the glycerin gets hot it can blow past the seal and blow out the black plug. This usually results in the glycerin leaking out of the guage.
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
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Originally Posted by NXJeremy
The glycerin inside the gauge can actually build pressure due to over heating (ie: sitting in the sunlight for too long, possibly in a trunk). There is a seal inside the guage that normally keeps the glycerin from seeing any pressure from the nitrous, but when the glycerin gets hot it can blow past the seal and blow out the black plug. This usually results in the glycerin leaking out of the guage.
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
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Originally Posted by Nitro Dave's Nitrous Outlet
This is an example of why you pay more for quality parts.Some companys just buy what will work and sell cheap.Then down the line as things break it cost you more money.Those CF gauges are junk.Look into getting a NX bottle pressure gauge.They are a heck of alot better quality.If you have the coldfusion kit with the port in the side of the valve you will need a part number 15508.
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Also, one more question, is it just the gauge that's blown out, or is it letting my nitrous leak out of the bottle (like is that the hissing i'm hearing)? Cuz it was full, didn't even use a drop and would like to use it, could always take my other gauge and put it in a manifold in line of the outlet to get a pressure read.
Yes any barnd guage will work.Thats just the part number of the NX one we carry.Im sorry to tell you this but you are going to lose all that nitrous out of the bottle when you take the gauge out to put the new one in.And if its leaking now its all going to leak out.
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Originally Posted by NXJeremy
The glycerin inside the gauge can actually build pressure due to over heating (ie: sitting in the sunlight for too long, possibly in a trunk). There is a seal inside the guage that normally keeps the glycerin from seeing any pressure from the nitrous, but when the glycerin gets hot it can blow past the seal and blow out the black plug. This usually results in the glycerin leaking out of the guage.
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
LoudMouth- In your case I would guess that one of two things happended. Either the guage got hot as I have explained above and the internal seal busted which will let pressure from the bottle out through the guage, or it the seal busted due to filling the bottle with the guage mounted on the bottle. Sometimes filling the bottle with the gauge on will break it as well.
Just my 1/2 cent
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Originally Posted by Nitro Dave's Nitrous Outlet
Yes any barnd guage will work.Thats just the part number of the NX one we carry.Im sorry to tell you this but you are going to lose all that nitrous out of the bottle when you take the gauge out to put the new one in.And if its leaking now its all going to leak out.
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Yeah, and I figured i'd lose the nitrous when I took the gauge out, but i've got like a manifold that goes in line of the main line that has a gauge on it for my 10 lb bottle (has no gauge port in the neck) that I figured I could just throw on just to use what's left of the bottle (if anything's left by now).
Originally Posted by Nitro Dave's Nitrous Outlet
This is an example of why you pay more for quality parts.Some companys just buy what will work and sell cheap.Then down the line as things break it cost you more money.Those CF gauges are junk.Look into getting a NX bottle pressure gauge.They are a heck of alot better quality.If you have the coldfusion kit with the port in the side of the valve you will need a part number 15508.
Dave
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That’s really not that fair of a statement Dave...Just doing a quick search on this forum I came up with a few threads containing other nitrous manufacturers pressure gauges blowing. Here there happens to be a few cases from one manufacturer, if everyone that bought a cold fusion kit posts that their pressure gauge ruptured then I’d say there is definitely a problem with the quality control. Looks to me like its a few isolated cases and just like every other Cold Fusion product we sell, we offer a lifetime warranty. Whether we sold the kit or they got it from another vendor, we honor this warranty.
Hypothetical question...if two people in the same post say that their "quality name brand" solenoids failed, does that automatically mean that the whole kit is junk? I think you’d agree that more than likely they’re isolated cases. I’ll leave it at that and allow you to draw your own conclusions Dave.
To the guys who have had problems with your gauges and haven’t been taken care of yet, please pm us and we’ll take care of the problem.
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That’s really not that fair of a statement Dave...Just doing a quick search on this forum I came up with a few threads containing other nitrous manufacturers pressure gauges blowing. Here there happens to be a few cases from one manufacturer, if everyone that bought a cold fusion kit posts that their pressure gauge ruptured then I’d say there is definitely a problem with the quality control. Looks to me like its a few isolated cases and just like every other Cold Fusion product we sell, we offer a lifetime warranty. Whether we sold the kit or they got it from another vendor, we honor this warranty.
Hypothetical question...if two people in the same post say that their "quality name brand" solenoids failed, does that automatically mean that the whole kit is junk? I think you’d agree that more than likely they’re isolated cases. I’ll leave it at that and allow you to draw your own conclusions Dave.
To the guys who have had problems with your gauges and haven’t been taken care of yet, please pm us and we’ll take care of the problem.
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Matt
Hypothetical question...if two people in the same post say that their "quality name brand" solenoids failed, does that automatically mean that the whole kit is junk? I think you’d agree that more than likely they’re isolated cases. I’ll leave it at that and allow you to draw your own conclusions Dave.
To the guys who have had problems with your gauges and haven’t been taken care of yet, please pm us and we’ll take care of the problem.
Thanks
Matt
Matt,
Your right.However thinking back in all the years I have sold NX products I can only remember very few cases where I have had to warrenty NX gauges.As a matter of a fact I can count them on one hand.So my point was that with a better quality gauge the possibilty of failure is less likely.Sorry none of this was a plug towards any certain brand.
Here is a picture of a NX guage next to a cold fusion gauge.Unfortintly the pics do not show how heavy duty the NX gauge is compared to the cold fusion gauge. The NX gauge is a much better quality gauge and just by holding the two in your hand you can feel the difference
Your right.However thinking back in all the years I have sold NX products I can only remember very few cases where I have had to warrenty NX gauges.As a matter of a fact I can count them on one hand.So my point was that with a better quality gauge the possibilty of failure is less likely.Sorry none of this was a plug towards any certain brand.
Here is a picture of a NX guage next to a cold fusion gauge.Unfortintly the pics do not show how heavy duty the NX gauge is compared to the cold fusion gauge. The NX gauge is a much better quality gauge and just by holding the two in your hand you can feel the difference
CFN took care of me
The reason my popped was because of heat, not CFN fault, I am sure NX or NOS brand gauge would have done the same in the same situation my bottle was in.....for the record I love my CFN kit and the shop that tuned my car said they have seen a couple and seem to be a good kit.
The reason my popped was because of heat, not CFN fault, I am sure NX or NOS brand gauge would have done the same in the same situation my bottle was in.....for the record I love my CFN kit and the shop that tuned my car said they have seen a couple and seem to be a good kit. 
