At 11:18 PM 3/12/2000 , Ray Nemo wrote:
>bently.  (Mines an OLD Bently-- only covers to 1985.)

Mine is the '91 edition, some of my page numbers don't gibe with yours.

>My confusion is regarding which coolant hose is the return and which is the
>feed.  Bently 19.10 makes makes it pretty clear that the hose which comes out
>the bottom of the radiator is the return.  This hose comes out of the radiator
>running vertically and makes a 90 degree turn so it then runs horizontally to
>the back of the bus.  The other hose seems to be the feed.  This hose is
>almost straight.  Is this right?

This agrees with my 19.10 (83-85 cooling schematic), 19.12 (all watercooled
radiator ass'y).  It also makes sense given that the fan thermoswitch is at
the bottom of the radiator, hence reading exit temps.

>My concern is 19.14.  The hose which is labelled the return seems to connect
>to the pipe that was on the right side.  This pipe then connected to uppermost
>hose that runs along the front of the engine compartment.  This is opposite of
>my notes and labels.  However, it's hard to tell which pipes are being
>represented on the diagram.

My 19.14 is a drawing of water pump-related stuff in the 2.1 engine...but
my 19.12 clearly shows the bent-end hose crossing over the straight hose
and mating with the left-side pipe.  This agrees with my van as well.  At
the after end my 19.8 and 19.9 (complete engine-compartment plumbing,
83-85) clearly indicates the hose connected to the pipe which enters on the
left (dunno if the pipes cross underneath but I doubt it) is connected to
the upper transverse hose which then enters the lower thermostat housing
and is protected by a small shield from nearby exhaust pipe.  This agrees
with the flow diagram on 19.10.

The discrepancy is that in the diagram on 19.10 they do not show the hoses
in front crossing over each other; however 19.12 clearly shows that they
do.  19.10 indicates that they cross over at the engine compartment, which
is not so.

Make sense?

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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