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Mar 5, 2007 | 04:15 PM

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jetdoc

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Originally Posted by DISLFVR

I'll buy that, good a reason as any.

Now back to my first question about how to make sure all water or solvent is out of i/c ?

I propped mine up to drain overnight. If you flush with hot water, it will expedite the drying process.

Mar 5, 2007 | 04:38 PM

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John311t

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If you just used water and you got 99% of the water out, i was assume you would be safe to start it, with a little bit of water in it.

Mar 5, 2007 | 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by John311t

If you just used water and you got 99% of the water out, i was assume you would be safe to start it, with a little bit of water in it.

Yes, perfectly safe. There won't be enough water in there to even come close to doing damage. It will probably just heat up and evaoprate quickly. No worse than when the humidity outside is 98%.

Mar 5, 2007 | 07:25 PM

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schwengler

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Anyone ever use a leaf blower to dry out water?

2002 F250 4" exhaust, superchip, ford ais.

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Mar 5, 2007 | 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by schwengler

Anybody ever thought of using a leaf blower to blow out water?

Good idea. And I'm thinking the tube on mine will fit nicely over the I/C connections.

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Mar 5, 2007 | 07:49 PM

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jtharvey

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Something like that wouldn't hurt. Leaf blower or shop vac. Just make sure there's nothing that gets sucked up by the blower and attempted to get forced through the IC.

Mar 5, 2007 | 08:05 PM

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I thought about that. Maybe the 6637 could be hooked up to the blower temporarily.

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Mar 5, 2007 | 08:08 PM

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Uzumati

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will fit nicely over the I/C connections

JT a leaf blower provides an awful lot of volume, that couldn't blow an end tank or cause a leak could it?

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Mar 5, 2007 | 08:12 PM

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As long as the operator was light on the throttle, it should be ok. But, Alan is right, the blower will move a lot of air. If it's got plastic end tanks you run into a problem if you ran the blower at full blast. However, they can see 30 psi during use on a truck. I don't think the leaf blower will create that much pressure. Perhaps the suction end of a shop vac would be the safer bet though.

Mar 5, 2007 | 08:54 PM

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Well, i would certainly hope that the intercooler is not restrictive enough to create more than a few psi of restriction inside the IC, with an unrestricted outlet. That's the best way to dry it out, low pressure and lots of CFM.