randy at least no damage was done

 

At least there was no one watching.:sign0020: Glad it didn't do any damage.:flag6: Blake

 

DITTO........:sign0020:
:gba:
bowtie-trifive

 

Hey Randy, if that is the dumbest thing you have ever done, you're doing pretty good.

 

--------:dito:..............

 

...and we have a winner. I will see if I can find one for you at the HAN Swap Meet.

 

personally Im stayn out of this one :wavey:

 

Daleo thanks for the diagram that's makes it easy to see what went wrong:sign0020: the weird thing is the cap wasn't even marked up, I'm thinking it actually only hit the belt and not the fan.

Jon I think there are some dumber things, but this is a family site:sign0020:


Randy

 

It takes a REAL Man to admit that he did something stupid! We've all done dumb things, but; seldom admit it to others!! :sign0020:

 

Reconstructed with cutting-edge forensic radiator cap tracking software I think I found out what happened...

 

I am sitting here at my desk laughing out loud.........love that picture and arrows pointing out the trajectory.

 

Just last week my stepson got home, said the Kia minivan died as he was pulling in the drive, the radio and dash lights had gone out before that. Charged up the battery, it started, but wasn't charging. So I drove 20 miles to get a $135 alternator, started changing it yesterday, after looking online to find out it's a 3 hour chore. As I'm taking off the 3rd easily accessible bolt, I notice there's no belt on it. DOH!!! No wonder it wasn't charging. And it was still a PITA to change the belt. :stupid: :banghead:

 

Good thing it didn't fall into the fan and take out your radiator Randy.:bowtieb:

 

The reason most of us don't talk about this stuff is that it happens several time a week.

It's not that we don't want to talk about it, but when it's routine it's not remarkable. It's part of your life like making a pot of coffee in the morning.

I'm still looking for the taillight bezel screw that I dropped last week.

 

Life is tough, it's even tougher when you're stupid!
'John Wayne'

 

Randy, to cap things off...are you running a Vortec based SBC? If so you may be experiencing temp fluctuations due to lack of constant bypass coolant flow. Lots of discussion on bypass elsewhere on bowtie-trifive.

 

Jim I had seen those posts a while back and what you guys did. It does have the vortex heads, but none of the other stuff. I had the water neck off replacing a gasket the other day and wanted to make sure when I filled it that I didn't have a bubble trapped. I have a Stewert thermostat with the holes in it so water gets by without it being open. As a matter of fact it takes forever to get hot and runs a bit cool on the open road.

Randy

 

Randy, I too run a Stewart high flow thermostat, but without holes. Before I added a coolant bypass line to my Vortec SBC I tried the Stewart with holes. That helped temp fluctuations some, but I could not get above 150 degrees at freeway speeds when ouside temp was 60 -70 degrees. I believe my bypass solultion helped a lot...I pretty much run constant 180 no matter what speed or what outside temperature.

 

Jim I could kill you:sign0020: I just went back and reread that huge thread on the bypass, over an hour of reading It is very good and does highlight my symptoms of fluctuation and not running hot enough on cool days because of the drilled thermostat. I guess I will have to figure a way to add the bypass, I'm short of access points on both the manifold and water pump though. I'm already using the water neck spacer for my temp and fan senders.

Randy

 

Yep, a proper bypass can take some clever pumbing.