Catch Cans for coolant overflow - what-ya-use?

bottle of popov...gives new meaning to puke tank.

 

HEY - I NEED THAT!!!
dixiedog - I have a Dixie Beer bottle

 

I think I have one of those generic "beer" cans. Maybe even a "light beer" can also. If you want it I can check around. Send me a PM. Later,Bill

 

turbine oil reservoir from the auxiliary power unit on a Boeing 737:

 

This is what I ran at first. Then I used a Marvel Mystery oil can, but some asshole stole it. Now I have a Sam Adams double bock bottle. Can't find a good picture.

 

Here's Moon's little 1 quart tank which can be used as for catch tank or reservoir.

Expensive little devils they are, but Moon Tanks have been trad for a long while so I'm not bashful about using this one.

If you take a look in a cooking/restrurant supply store you can find stainless steel cans in different sizes that would make a very nice catch tank with nothing more than a stainless mounting plate welded on similar to the Moon tank.

If the little catch tank bothers some as being too billety, the third pic shows a 2 1/2 gallon tank that's been in the family for over 45 years.
As well as having been on a number of friends drag race cars running from back in the day gassers to modern bracket racers and a couple of dragsters.
One modern one running alcohol - the tank was too small - and the other a flathead running fuel.

Trad or not, the little fuel tank has quite a history.

 

The WWII canteens mentioned were practically standard equipment on drag cars in the 1950's--they were generally mounted upside down with a welded fitting for the hose and the original cap serving as drain. The aluminum capped one is Model 1910, I think, and the similar bakelite topped one was also issued during the war, with very similar ones being used up into early Vietnam war before being replaced by plastic. Check out a few--some have much better welding than others, and can look really good in a car with 1950's style fuel system parts.

 

I also run a bicycle water bottle with the "nipple" drilled out and the hose run to the bottom of the bottle so it works as a coolant recover system with the proper radiator cap. I had the vented radiator vent sealed off and converted to a recover type neck.
Instead of the plastic bicycle bottle mount I have it in a windshield washer bottle mount out of a '73 MGB. The MGB washer bottle was too small in volume and over flowed.
The bottle was on a bicycle I bought for Wife but she didnt want to drink "hot water" out of the black plastic bottle so it was "free".

(Free parts always = "Traditional" Jalopy parts, even if not traditional hotrod parts!)

 

Good stuff guys - keep 'em comin'!!

Slide - Nice looking engine bay. I dig that hubcap air filter lid and your overflow! Nice work.

 

I do too. The gray metal cage looks OK with the cast aluminum engine parts.

 

I'm using a canteen I got from a surplus store.

 

Here's one I'm gonna use on the pickup. I love the Happy Crusing script on the bottom.

 

if it were old, you woulda needed a church key

 

I used a "fragrance" container that was gifted to me from an old Army Buddy. His wife made soap and had lots of different aluminum containers. Simple and it works.

 

I use a 1960 GM Optikleen windshield wiper reservoir now......but not sure what I used in 2006.

 

the space between the carburetors is making my head hurt

 

Far old tread,but as it's being added too,OK.
The first one I used on my 28A,was a alum. US Army Canteen,but a buddy wanted it bad,an was not in love with it anyway.
Digging around in my stuff,I found my lunch box canteen,it's stainless steel an I thought ,just the size I like.

 

Some PVC pipe and I installed a petcock in the bottom. No rat rod shit on this pile.

 

Had an old canteen laying around.Drilled the top for an inlet, and a tiny vent pointed down.

 

Mine is just a boring piece of aluminum conduit with ends welded on, then turned in a lathe. Inlet tube goes to the bottom for recovery. Has a petcock on the bottom for draining. My Henry J has one also but with a raw aluminum finish.

Gary