Coolant overflow bottle?

[grey5.0beast]

What the hell am I supposed to do to clean this thing up? I am putting my car back together this weekend hopefully and I am doing it with mostly freshly painted/polished parts. But that overflow bottle is so ugly and yellowish browny tint. Does anyone make a nice replacement? Or what have you guys done?

 

[1.8kmint]

ebay there like 50 bucks...

 

[LiquidGT]

Canton makes an aluminum overflow that looks nice. Expensive though.click

 

[NKau]

Go at it with a coarse wash cloth or a brillo pad and some Simple Green. If that doesn't clean it up, nothing will.

 

[UnderdogGN]

i have the canton catch can. Love it and it looks 10x better than stock.

 

[5.0Droptop]

Rattle can-o-paint. your choice of color just $4.99

 

[Sicarius428]

Canton looks awesome.
Kevin

 

[grey5.0beast]

That canton does look sick. I am going to soak it in water with cleaner that has bleach adn see if I can't make it completely white.

 

[ttop88]

Paint it satin black. It will blend in that way.

 

[Deleted member 87397]

I have the Moroso catch can in mine and it looks nice and was not too expensive. They have a black one that is like 25 bucks or the nicer aluminum one for about 70. Ebay is also a good choice. Also, I dont' know if you've been there before or not, but there is a place in Clarkston called Prestige Mustang and all they do is Mustang salvage. Last time I was in there I saw tons of coolant overflows in all different conditions. You have to haggle with them on price though or they can be expensive sometimes for just salvage parts.

 

[monte87]

I would honestly buy a stocker replacement from Laurel Mustang for $30. I went through a lot of bull**** with aluminum catch cans int he past, leaks, then not being able to see how much fluid was int here, blah blah- I mean-they look nice and all, But they are not large enough to allow the proper expamnsion of coolant, and not ebing able to visually see whats going on-Your gonna have a headache-been there and done that.
In my case-It killed me to remove the aluminum can, because-i have a fully polished fluidyne and the catch can was polished to a mirro-It looked nice, but that was about it. So i got another new sticker-and im a happy camper. Esp[ecially after blowing a H/G and not being able to see the milkshake in the solid aluminum catch can-Get my point!!! Its better to see whats going n, than to look coool.

Ciao Anthony

 

[monte87]

Plus-the majoruty of aluminmiun catch cans only hold 1 quart of fluid, 2 at the most. The plastic stoicker is huge by comparison, can hold way more and never usually overflows when your on it, like the aluminum will when in throttle You'll see-the underneath area of the hood will sometimes be wet-from the condesnation which is misting out from the small threaded insert..

 

[iwashmycar]

50resto has em

 

[Mr. Rustypwnz]

go to mustangs unlimited and get one, $30 and you live like 3 miles away...

 

[Darkwriter77]

Someone (sorry, forgot whom) previously used some PVC and brass pipe fittings from Home Depot and rigged up a really sweet custom catch can for their Fox for pretty cheap. Spray that with whatever color of choice (black, presumably), secure it with a rigged-up bracket, and bickety-bam, you're set.

I don't like the stock overflow container because the way it's cast leaves that seam right down the middle that always inevitably splits and causes it to leak. Crappy design to start with.

 

[LiquidGT]

I don't like the stock overflow container because the way it's cast leaves that seam right down the middle that always inevitably splits and causes it to leak. Crappy design to start with.

Tell me about it, when I bought the car the seam was busted and cracked by the lower bolt hole, got a new one and it eventually leaked so I sealed it with RTV. And the cap doesnt fit right, crappy design indeed.

 

[92GreenGT]

I've used the cheap one from Advance Auto for years with good results. Only until the last few weeks have I thought about using something else. I have mine placed beside the battery.

 

[Darkwriter77]

I've used the cheap one from Advance Auto for years with good results. Only until the last few weeks have I thought about using something else. I have mine placed beside the battery.

That's pretty much what I did on my '89 notch. The prior owner had a small Checker one on the side where the battery was, since he had the battery ghetto-rig-relocated to the trunk. When I put the battery back up front (never had the funds to do up the relocation NHRA-legal, myself), I got the bigger catch can from Autozone and hung it from the top bracket of the radiator with a bolt on one side and a zip-tie on the other. It's a little close to the belt near where the PS pump sits, but it still clears, and it's never caused any problems. Only paid like $10 for it, too. I just don't like the cap on the thing, because it's kind of a booger to get off - sort of like a milk jug with a snap-on lid that has no grippy edge to it.

Amazingly, the OEM overflow container on my '86 still holds coolant without leaking a drop.