Thread: Radiator recovery

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I recently discovered that my shinny cool radiator recovery tank could not maintain a full level capacity in my radiator on the hot California days, if the radiator was full the tank would spill over occasionally when the weather turned hot.

I didn’t have the space under the hood to increase the recovery tank size and I was limited for placement of an additional catch can. Seems the perfect place for the catch can on my 36 Ford was under the front grill just in front and below the radiator, there I could tuck it up out of harms way.

Problem, catch cans are designed to stand up (inlet on the bottom, outlet on the top, but I only have room enough to lay it down horizontally. Solution, modify the catch can’s inlet and outlet to allow it to re-circulate in the horizontal position as outlined below, hopefully this will help other solve similar problems.