Posted by ScottyHOMEy on March 18, 2009 at 18:11:07 from (70.105.234.113):
In Reply to: model a radiator posted by josh watson on March 18, 2009 at 17:26:51:
That's pretty typical, Josh.
Those motors don't run real hot anyway without a good load on them, and even 20 minutes of just tooling around won't warm them up enough to register on the gauge.
They don't make much heat and they've got a very efficient cooling system. If you were to hear an A working from a distance, you likely wouldn't hear the exhaust except maybe when the governor grabbed. What you would hear is the howl of the fan. It draws an awful lot of air over that radiator. I had to warm one of mine up after a rebuild so I could retorque the head, so I ran it without the grille on, and covered the radiator with a kitchen trash bag and drove it around to warm it up. Once it was warm I left it run, with the radiator uncovered while I tinkered with the carb for a little bit. Before shutting it down I checked the radiator. The top was warmer than you would want to rest your hand on. The lower part was cool as could be.
On my Super C, even with a thrermosat, I have to close the shutters to heat it up enough to move the gauge on a short run if she's not working hard.
And it will bubble some. If you drained it as part of replacing your temp bulb, you might want to just drive it up an incline once to get rid of any bubble that you might have at the rear of the head, but even with that done, it's not unusual for them to gurgle and bubble a little bit. Nature of the beast.
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