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brickman, be sure you have a good cap like dave said, and a good over flow tank, but the old old style rad. like yours should not push that much water out like the cross flow does. nothing should blow out a 1/2 gal. i think you got some other problems. on your rad. the overflow tank dont do anything but catch a little overflow sometimes so it dont make no dif where you put it. a overflow tank and a recovery tank are 2 dif. things. the overflow recovery system has a dif. rad. cap and the pick up tube needs to be below the water in the tank. if you car temp is staying at 180 degrees and you have a good 15 lb. cap it shouldnt blow out any water. on most cross flows the water flow is pushing against the cap, and they run 225 degrees so its made to blow out some water.

You where right guys, I had the cap checked out and not only was it warn-out but the wrong cap all together! I went to the proper car for that radiator that happened to be a "4" lb. cap but fits down in the radiator properly and all the overflow stopped. It is now running a constent 190 with no variation and no leaks. Tomorrow I am taking her to a show in Cotter Ark so we will see. Once again you guys have come through for me, thanks a bunch fella's.

Good to hear it Brickman, now you can get back to the important business of cruizin!!!

Thanks Dave and cruise I did! The wife and I went down to the Cotter Ark show with our club and we received the "Judges Choice" award and a "Top Forty" award out of 80 cars! We then went to a super cruise sponserd by one of our local clubs and received a 1st place trophy in the "Under Construction" class. So my wife and I are very very proud of our old chevy, she has trophied everytime we have taken her out so far. You know what though, trophys are nice but the real reward is to be able to join 20 of our clubmates and cruise in a group to the shows. That is where the fun is for me, I love it!

Yup, the cruizin is the best part!!! We are allready beginning to plan a "cruize" of at least 6 of us from the roadster club to Los Angeles for the Fathers Day LA Roadsters get together in 2007!!! Should be a blast!!!

Been getting some work done on Bill's Firebird also. Fenders and fenderwells are back on. The car is starting to look like something now. Bill likes it, anyhow!!!

Now that would be a great event to go to thats for sure, fantastic! I would love to have a roadster to cruise in, I am looking for a Orig. body now. I have a frame that I got out of a field that has a firewall with a "Fisher" emblem on it and it still had the step pad for the rumble seat on it. They are the embodiment of hot rodding to me.

I finally talked a friend of mine out of his steel T Coupe and will be converting it to a roadster body and putting it on a Deuce frame. I think it's the project I've been saving my last Cobra Jet FE engine and trans for!!! Should get going on it this winter. So far I have the frame rails set in the jig and the top taken off the body. Now all I need is more time and money!!!!!

took a pic today, got a long ways to go on this one!!!!!

Dave yes a long way to go, but it will be sweet Im sure when your done.

That is a very nice looking boby Dave, is it going to take alot of conversion to make it a right roadster? I think that I would like a ride in that girl when it's done!

Not a lot, Brick. Move the top door hinges, make a cap for the top edge, nothing real big though. Kind of an easy build, actually..

Very cool, thats going to be a great ride Dave. I would love to be going there also.
I put a chrome flywheel cover and the right starter on my car so it doesn't make "That" Noise anymore. I also hide a little more wiring under the dash and put a couple chrome wheels on the rear of the car. They are 14's instead of 15's but wider than what I had on there. It's driving a little better and bark's quite nicely going into 2nd gear! HeHeHe! Do we ever "not enjoy" that guys?

Does anyone have any idea who may have a "reasonably" priced 4 core radiator that will fit my '48? The radiator I have is leaking now and I am just going to replace it and end my worries.

What are the measurements for height and width????