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Subject:Re: Syncro coolant dist. Tower, was Re: WBX Plastic Coolant Pipe Inspection
From:Angus Gordon
Date:Tue, 20 May 2014 18:37:18 -0600

I can get you some measurements (when I get home).

I also have one laying around that I put together with hardware store fittings. I thought it was a temporary repair but it was still working 15 years later when I replaced it with a stainless version. 

Angus

> On May 20, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> 
> This discussion making me nervous, I still have stock plastic distribution tower in my syncro. I'd like to make an aluminum replacement but I don't have a syncro tower in hand to copy. Any chance anyone has measurements or can take measurements so that I could make one?
> 
> I could buy one... I suppose.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alistair
> 
> 
>> On May 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
>> 
>> For sure, if you have the money and time to replace everything at once
>> then the sky is the limit. I find that the same logic gets applied in
>> reverse so I avoid using that logic too much. By that I mean if people
>> think it is wasteful to replace aging critical parts unless they are
>> also replacing a bunch of other stuff or doing other work in the same
>> area then they put off the more critical work until they "can do it all
>> at once". I see that happen all the time and sometimes in the mirror.
>> The cooling system parts that fail most often on a trip are the ones
>> closest to the engine. If you can't do it all at least start there.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> John Schwartz wrote:
>>> Just got done doing this job too!!!
>>> 
>>>>

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