Reserve Tank Hose
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Laughing Gas
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Reserve Tank Hose
I keep going back and forth on whether to put this in the engine forum or here but here goes. . .
i have a 94 f150 supercab w/a 4.9l 300 I6 and a quick question.
i am trying to figure out exactly where the long hose from the bottom of the tank goes. i imagine it goes to the radiator, and haynes says it does but there is no place for it on my radiator. i thought for a while that it may be that the radiator was replaced with just some sort of universal type that doesnt have the inlet for that hose?
can anyone help? thanks guys
i have a 94 f150 supercab w/a 4.9l 300 I6 and a quick question.
i am trying to figure out exactly where the long hose from the bottom of the tank goes. i imagine it goes to the radiator, and haynes says it does but there is no place for it on my radiator. i thought for a while that it may be that the radiator was replaced with just some sort of universal type that doesnt have the inlet for that hose?
can anyone help? thanks guys
Tuned
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The hose for the reserve/overflow should connect to the radiator at at the neck above the seal and below the cap. As pressure and coolant rise in the system the cap releases and allows excess coolant to be routed to the reserve/overflow tank. As the system cools a vacuum is created above the coolant level in the radiator which draws the coolant back into the radiator from the reserve/overflow. You should have small hose connection soldered onto the neck of the radiator just below the cap.
John
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Laughing Gas
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thanks for the response. thats what i thought and thats what haynes says too but my radiator has no such thing. except for one that has a hose going to some t fitting going towards the engine itself instead of to the reserve tank
its going to some hose . . . i cant remember where the hose goes to now. . .
its going to some hose . . . i cant remember where the hose goes to now. . .
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