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I feel like I worked like a dog today and got little done. It may be that I spent most of yesterday and today cleaning up after our hail storm yesterday morning.
I started by installing the a/c compressor and adjusting the belt. The engine is coming together. I then spent the rest of my time figuring out and then installing the black magic fan on my DeWitts radiator. I’m going to space the sway bar down 3/16” tomorrow. That will center my clearance between the radiator fan, sway bar and front of the lower control arm. I also replaced the radiator drain with a zinc.
My wife picked up one of the many baseball sized hail stone (boulder) that rained down on our house. Fortunately, no broken windows or damage, but our trees got a serious trimming and our pool is full or branches and leaves. Our neighbors car was destroyed and many broken windows and tile roofs up and down the street. This is man killer sized hale!
Glad all your property survived and you got some work done. I spent 9 hours removing rocker panels and wheel well liners on the kids car as we cleaned out the chicken by products that spilled in the road. He thought it was mud.
The smell was there as it happened Thursday evening and he came home late Friday night from school. He tried to wash it Thursday night but this stuff was like that Eastwood frame coating and went everywhere. Took it to the pressure car wash Saturday morning and drove in the rain for a little bit. Stormed all day so I hit it today. There were some potential puke moments.
With an aluminum radiator, heads and water pump, it is good insurance. Most people don’t realize that GM installs a zinc in the head of each LS engine.
The smell was there as it happened Thursday evening and he came home late Friday night from school. He tried to wash it Thursday night but this stuff was like that Eastwood frame coating and went everywhere. Took it to the pressure car wash Saturday morning and drove in the rain for a little bit. Stormed all day so I hit it today. There were some potential puke moments.
I lived on an old chicken farm on top of a mountain in upstate NY when I was in high school. There hadn’t been chickens there in ten years, yet it reeked so bad when it rained that you couldn’t go outside. Chickens are foul fowl.
Glad your family is safe and well and no damage to the chattels … Man ! … that's one HUGE "ice ball" - engine lookin' good - GV
Originally Posted by Factoid
My wife picked up one of the many baseball sized hail stone (boulder) that rained down on our house. Fortunately, no broken windows or damage, but our trees got a serious trimming and our pool is full or branches and leaves. Our neighbors car was destroyed and many broken windows and tile roofs up and down the street. This is man killer sized hale!
It keeps dissimilar metals from creating a current flow that dissolves the less noble metal. Aluminum is less noble than iron, but zinc is less noble than aluminum. The less noble metal becomes the anode which dissolves over time. Not a good thing for your radiator which is the thinnest metal. This galvanic corrosion is exaggerated in the presence of an electrolyte (your coolant), especially if that electrolyte is flowing. Antifreeze made for cooling systems using aluminum have special inhibitors, but they are less effective the more aluminum that is present. By the way, Greg, almost every cooling system in the navy uses zincs (sacrificial anodes) to protect the equipment.
Originally Posted by Gavin65
Glad that there was no real damage other than clean up from the hail, I have never in my life come across hail that large, its like dodging baseballs.
Our house has a heavy copper roof with substantial overhangs that protected the windows and doors. However, we also have cathedral ceilings and it sounded like bombs going off. Fortunately, the giant hail only lasted for about five minutes, but while you are going through it it seems like hours.
It keeps dissimilar metals from creating a current flow that dissolves the less noble metal. Aluminum is less noble than iron, but zinc is less noble than aluminum. The less noble metal becomes the anode which dissolves over time. Not a good thing for your radiator which is the thinnest metal. This galvanic corrosion is exaggerated in the presence of an electrolyte (your coolant), especially if that electrolyte is flowing. Antifreeze made for cooling systems using aluminum have special inhibitors, but they are less effective the more aluminum that is present. By the way, Greg, almost every cooling system in the navy uses zincs (sacrificial anodes) to protect the equipment.
Interesting....that explains the death of the 5 year old aluminum radiator in my Suburban. Where do you purchase the zincs from?
Interesting....that explains the death of the 5 year old aluminum radiator in my Suburban. Where do you purchase the zincs from?
Thanks!
Amazon has tons around $10
I put mine in the temp sender hole since I’m using my EFI to control the fan that way I can keep my petcock.
We had them the size of candy bars bolted to the hull on the sub. My dad used to keep a few pennies in with his tools as sacrificial anodes too. I’m not sure they did much though
I put mine in the temp sender hole since I’m using my EFI to control the fan that way I can keep my petcock.
We had them the size of candy bars bolted to the hull on the sub. My dad used to keep a few pennies in with his tools as sacrificial anodes too. I’m not sure they did much though
Copper is more noble than iron, so no. I bought mine from Summit and anytime I drain the coolant I want to check it so it acts as the drain anyway.
Had a good day today once I cleaned the pool out again. One more cleaning tomorrow and it should be back to normal.
I modified my DeWitts radiator slightly in order to mount the Black Magic fan. It is actually 1/2” too tall, but not a big deal. Once the radiator was in I trimmed the hoses to fit. These are the stock hoses and they fit okay. I wonder if there is a better shape for the DeWitts radiator? Finally, I made some spacers for the sway bar to ensure there was at least 1/4” between the radiator, sway bar and front pivot of the lower control arm. I ended up with two 1/8” spacers on each side and everything is copacetic.
Out with the wimpy 4 gauge battery cables. In with 1 gauge cables. I made them all to length crimping, soldering and covered with heat shrink. Set up the crimped in the vice. Coated the inside of the lug and exposed end of the cable with rosin flux. Inserted the cable and cranked down on the vice. Makes a nice crimp that then gets heated with a torch and solder is drawn into the hole making a bullet proof bond. Positive, negative and a ground strap all now installed. A rats nest of wiring! Should have it all sorted tomorrow and I’ll finish the cooling system on Thursday. Woo hoo!
04-14-2019, 04:20 PM
