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Subject:Re: San Diego area: pressure tank or cap test adapters?
From:kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Date:Sat, 8 Sep 2012 06:36:45 -0400

You can easily and cheaply make your own.  Just buy a hand bicycle pump
from Walmart with a gauge on it.  Be sure it has the adapter needed to blow
up air mattresses.  Now use this adapter with a short piece of hose to the
nipple on your pressure cap.  Pump up the coolant system to 14 psi for the
test.  The cap has a check valve in it that should allow you to pump up the
pressure.  If it won't hold any pressure then replace the cap with a new
"blau" brand one.  Other brands are junk even when new.  Now you have a
pressure tester for probably $10 or less.  Have fun.

Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
On Sep 7, 2012 2:35 PM, "Travis Newhouse" <travisnewhouse@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.  Does anyone in the San Diego area have a coolant pressure tank or
> pressure cap adapters to use with a pressure tester?  I'd be happy to
> rent them from someone for a couple days.  Please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Travis Newhouse
> Encinitas, CA
>

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