I am on my way to work Wednesday morning and I pull out of the side street on the main road that runs right in front of the local ford dealership. I look in my rearview mirror and I see that the car behind me is closing at a faster speed that I thought. Soo I stand on the accelerator in first gear. The car jumps quick and hard and the blink of an eye, the tach reads 5500 RPM. My Mustang has a Tremec 3550 trans, so full throttle upshifts are not a problem. I hear the satisfying bark of the rear tires and the rear end does a little sideways dance right in front of the Ford dealership. At about that time, the cabin fills with steam... The heater core has burst and is bleeding green on the pavement behind me. I pull off the road onto the driveway of a closed auto repair shop and phone my wife to come get me...
LRS has the parts and the one thing that probably would have saved me from blowing the heater core. There is a restrictor orifice that fits in the 5/8"feed hose. It reduces the instantaneous pressure that occurs when the engine suddenly sees high RPMs. it's like $10, so you can count that I will not overlook installing it along with the new heater core...
LRS has the parts and the one thing that probably would have saved me from blowing the heater core. There is a restrictor orifice that fits in the 5/8"feed hose. It reduces the instantaneous pressure that occurs when the engine suddenly sees high RPMs. it's like $10, so you can count that I will not overlook installing it along with the new heater core...