hi folks, this is my first thread so be nice, i am planning on putting one of those tanks that went between the engine and the rad on early 60,s ford cars, was wondering just how much water do you put in them ?do you fill them up like a rad or no water at all in the tank?
just like a rad. in a stock application, the tank is higher than the rad. it'll be harder to fill if the tank is lower than the radiator.
It's an expansion tank. Fill the rad and when the coolant gets hot, it expands...in to the expansion tank. Don't put any coolant in the tank, I've seen them split under pressure.
The one that I tried to use has the piss tube on it just like any other radiator cap because the Fords that they came on did not have a radiator cap. Fill it up, start it up and it might piss some as the engine comes up to temp. If it was truly an expansion tank it would have a max fluid level on it like a modern coolant recovery tank.
fill it up and run the car a few times it will show you where the full line is. its a expansion tank, usually about 1/2 full. to avoid this loose of antifreeze simply put a overflow tank on your car . then the overflowed antifreeze will be simply pulled back into the radiator . not lost on the ground. almost every car on the road has a overflow tank for a reason. be orginal on what you use for the overflow tank, beer can embalming fluid be creative
Just installed a rebult engine with all new cooling system in my 63 Bird with the stock expansion tank. Seems to be stabilized right at the level of the horizontal baffle or at mid tank. 1/2 tank for air and 1/2 tank for coolant, I guess.
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