Its the dead ends that create air traps Ry - no way to get that air out
unless you bleed from the plugs you installed.

Jake

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Ry <rylincoln@gmail.com> wrote:

> cool cool ;)
>
> mine are not connected together just both blocked off for the time being. I
> have new hose and T's and a heater valve.  But it's 100 fricken degrees
> down
> here and I have zero motivation to reinstall the second heater.
>
> -Ry
> http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Ry <rylincoln@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> someone please tell me how you're creating a loop in which you will trap
> >> air
> >> any more than actually having the heater core hooked up?  coolant is
> still
> >> traveling through the same path just not through a heater core...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> prepared to be schooled,
> >> -Ry
> >> http://www.google.com/profiles/rylincoln
> >>
> >>   Basic hydraulics.  Your circulatory (coolant)  system is a closed
> > system, 'pressurized' (circulated?) by the water pump.  Liquid will
> travel
> > through any path available and be at the same pressure in all the paths.
>  So
> > when you (or when I did, without thinking it through) remove the rear
> > heater, the valve and the heater radiator both, and connect the hoses
> > together in a loop, you have simply created an always open loop through
> > which the coolant will constantly circulate at the same pressure as that
> > which is going forward to the main radiator.  But now, at the rear
> 'loop',
> > it no longer passes through a radiator (the heater core) so it is simply
> > wasted circulation/ a diminishing of the effectiveness of your water
> > pump...With the rear heater in place and working...when you turn it on,
> you
> > get cooling of the coolant...Without that and an open loop, you get
> useless
> > circulation of the coolant only.
> >   You won't get air locks or bubbles...you just get wasted function from
> > your water pump.  If you closed off those hoses...the water hits a dead
> end
> > and then goes on through your real radiator, cooling the coolant...No
> > circulation through an un-cool loop...sorry for that one.
> >    Don Hanson
> >
> >
>

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Jake

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