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"New aluminum radiator".
Is that a reproduction Packard radiator or did u determine some modern radiator from some other car that would fit?????
Posted on: 2015/2/19 19:46
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I'm not familiar with the distribution tube. Is it just a solid wall tube or does it have holes drilled in the sides??? Or just open at each end???
Posted on: 2015/2/19 19:54
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I'm not familiar with the distribution tube. Is it just a solid wall tube or does it have holes drilled in the sides??? Or just open at each end???
Varying sized holes on sides which are generally directed toward valves and seat areas and particularly the exhausts. Tapers slightly -- wider at the pump end but narrows slightly and has a closed rear end. Most are thin brass but there have been a few aftermarkets found that were made of ordinary sheet metal. Those tended to be thoroughly rusted and many were in pieces
Posted on: 2015/2/19 21:05
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At some point mine was replaced with a sheet metal one, and it was a royal PITA to remove, in many pieces. I have a brass one now, and when a pulled it a few years after installing, it slid right out.
Posted on: 2015/2/20 8:19
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I've pulled four tubes out of four different engines. Each of them were brass, and easy to remove as long as you used a long rod to hook it at the far end, rather than the end next to the radiator. The last one I removed was from an engine from a car that had been in the junkyard for at least 40 years and it came out easily.
Posted on: 2015/2/20 9:28
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Like Ken P, I've encountered NORS steel tubes (Dorman); apologies for posting this picture yet again. Ken's comment that it was a royal PITA to remove is an understatement.
Posted on: 2015/2/20 9:33
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HH56. Thanks for the pic and the details of the distribution tube.
Posted on: 2015/2/20 9:35
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From HH56 post #14 above the tube appears to b a 1/2 hexagonal tube. The tube is also TAPERED from front to rear. Therefore i assume there is probably 4 supports inside of the block that mite resemble cam shaft web supports.
OK. So it mite be rather ez to repop the tube: Use 1 or maybe two ROUND brass tubes. Cut four (or however many needed) brass blocks say 1" thick, shaped like a 1/2 hex. Drill 1 or 2 round holes into the brass support blocks and slide them over the round brass tubes. Drill holes in tubes to correspond to OEM tube hole locations. A good homemade fabrication??? No stamping required. just stock brass tube and brass plate and some Ag solder or maybe even brass set screws, no solder. Bad idea?????
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Not a bad idea at all. Could even cut a couple of pieces of hard wood for patterns. One could be a flat template for drilling or punching holes and the other could be formed to wrap thin brass around it and shape the tube. Tube could be made in one or two pieces and silver soldered instead of having the rolled crimp on the back.
If it is a fact that Kanter or Max have none and no repros are being made then seems like an opportunity for a low volume garage operation. You could make a half dozen of a particular model at a time which would probably be enough for a years stock. Getting ahold of a decent one of each configuration for long enough to copy would probably be the hardest part.
Posted on: 2015/2/20 10:17
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