First test drive of my 32 roadster bones style ended bad

Been working around the clock to get it done for my sons graduation, unfortunatelly I did discover a water crack issue with the flathead, its pressure in the water system! Now I have to find another engine in a hurry to save the summer :-(

 

good lookin roadster

 

That is one good looking roadster. Sorry to hear about the sick flatty.

 

Yes it,s purs out in the radiator cap/hole

 

Fill the radiator, close cap, run the engine engine up to operating temp, shut it off.
After it finishes puking and cools off, open the cap.
THAT is the level you should keep the water at to eliminate the problem.

 

Looks Great...

 

Wow, that is a good lookin' roadster. Hope you get it fixed soon. Anymore pics?

 

Now, what we have here is what we call a Hot Rod...........pure and simple!!

Frank

 

looks like someone stole your decklid too

 

Nice car. I would be hopeful and follow Pasenda HotRod's advice. I am pretty inexperienced in a lot of this but learned through a couple of radiator puking sessions that my flathead radiator really wanted to be down about three inches. Hope it works out.

 

Nice roaster!

 

this might be a stupid question but it happend to me is your radiator pressurized because if its stock it wont be pressurized and it will poor out the over flow all the time

 

Bones Style? Ever heard of a guy by the name of Doane Spencer?

 

Wow,that thing looks cool!

 

Great looking roadster, and yeah, Bones cars rule but Doanne was first.
Did you pinch the rails also?

 

I will try

 

Did this Spencer fella play for the Bengals?

 

That's a killer look'n Roadster!

 

Perfect, just perfect!!! What did you do for front shocks? I went thru some of your old posts, but didn't see any pics of what you had done. I'm building a similiar ch***is myself, and am still debating on how I'm going to do this..
Congrats on the build!!
Sam

 

It,s going to be frictions shocks by some way, i have prepair some bases (hidden by grill shell) for them but still to do the fabrics of the shocks, same for rear end

 

Yes, the rails are pinched

 

Looks Awesome!... and familiar, here is a 1/8th scale model I built.

 

I thought it was a real car in the first picture, cool.

 

Looks great.

Did you try re-torquing the heads or did you actually find and see a crack? Could it be a head gasket and not a crack? That's a pretty big leap to take unless you have torn it down.

 

Uh....Wow. That thing looks evil while at the same time ***y as hell. Nice!

 

I like it. Less is more.

 

That thing is so bad**S id have a friend tow me in it to the graduation with a strap!!!

 

Maybe, maybe it,s a light in the tunnel. I drove it again today with less water in it, and it would hold it better.

 

That sure sounds good. As Pasadena said fill it up and drive it. As the coolant expands some will come out. Don't worry about it as long as the temp gauge says things are fine and it doesn't boil over. Mine would start to run about 195 after a while and I knew it was low on coolant...I added some more and it was back to 180.

Remember block cracks don't heal.

 

I,m running a Walker radiator, what type of cap do you run on those? I have a 4lb