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Subject:Re: You know how just when you think you're wrapping up, the radiator bleeder screw head shears off?
From:Rob
Date:Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:42:15 -0800

At  12/11/2012 02:27 AM, Mike South wrote:
>As the subject says, I was closing the bleeder screw and the head sheared
>right off.  Wasn't applying too much torque, but maybe it was because I had
>done that in the past.  Anyway, the good news is that it was all coolant
>coming out; I think it was adequately burped!

Once when we were bleeding it and my helper over torqued it, cracked
the radiator. It was an old radiator....

Rob
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