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echo: automotive
to: Mark Hofmann
from: Roy Witt
date: 2012-04-07 07:23:48
subject: Crazy Truck Problem

07 Apr 12 08:33, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:



 RW>> It can get as high as 280-300psi, depending on the ECM trans fluid
 RW>> controller...

 MH> The pressure must have been realy high to rip one of the main
 MH> radiator hoses in half.  That hose wasn't in bad condition before the
 MH> radiator failure.

ATF mixed with coolant (coagulating) probably didn't have enough time to
circulate through the core, thus building up a pressure head at the
weakest point in the system...upper hose.

 MH> The overflow was also overflowed.  :)

The only pressure relief point. 8^)


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