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Crazy Thing Happened Today




Tyler, in your situation, using the heat on full blast was VERY
intelligent...should have stopped as soon as possible, but you did do a
good thing there...

Undoing the cap was bad...but live and learn right?

Eric


On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Tyler J. Pease wrote:

> Sorry I've never been informed on radiator stuff, but you see, I wasn't
> really trying to cool it down faster, it was leaking out of hoses into th=
e
> road so I wanted to get the pressure out, not to mention that I was in no
> danger because I was patient in opening it and my hand was well protected=
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> As for pulling over right away, well, I appreciate being called an idiot =
and
> all but I turned up the heat and brought the temp down to acceptable leve=
l.
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> Ps.  My car's running fine and I did have a great day.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn C Meze [mailto:skerocdriver@juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 6:39 AM
> To: uberzip@attbi.com
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Crazy Thing Happened Today
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> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:47:25 -0800 "Tyler J. Pease" <uberzip@attbi.com>
> writes:
> >There I was driving down the I-5 in the fast lane when all the sudden
> >a  - SNIP! -
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> 1) OK, when the idiot light comes on, thats the signal for the idiot
> behind the wheel to pull over, stop, get out of the car, open the hood
> and see if there is something wrong. HAd you done this, you could of
> prevented overheating the motor. Expect problems now.
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> 2) Opening a radiator cap on a boiling over motor is a bad thing.
> "Letting the pressure out" doesnt help in cooling at all not to mention
> you could of been burned.
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> Have a great day!
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> Shawn M=E9ze
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Eric
Northglenn, CO

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