Re: What's the weirdest thing you ever found in cooling system?

Posted by IHank on December 15, 2001 at 19:15:26 from (207.177.47.145):

In Reply to: What's the weirdest thing you ever found in cooling system? posted by SAm on December 15, 2001 at 13:51:41:

Sam- In 1965 I took the radiator off my Model T Ford and sent it to the radiator shop for repairs. It was gone all winter and I got it back in late spring. I got the thing put back together and while filling it with water I noticed a big glob of fuzz floating up into the radiator filler neck. Next thing I noticed was the glob of fuzz was wiggling up out of the water and radiator filler neck, then it straggled back and collapsed on the hood! A quick smack with a wrench finished off the nearly drowned rat that had holed up in the big cavity in the Model T cylinder head.

That was just the beginning... Model T cooling system operates right at the boiling point and every time I'd fire up the T and drive it I got a horrible stench from the radiator. Several applications of soda powder and soap and blasts from the garden hose gradually got rid of the remains of the baby rats. It took a long time for the stench of rat soup to go away!

I ran the Model T 'till around 1983 and sold it. Last I knew it is all fixed up and painted pretty and still running around NW Iowa. IHank

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