I'm with Andy, Bud. The thermosiphon is a simple and amazingly efficient system. The water pumps appeared on the A and C series that block when IH sleeved it out to make a 123 out of it, at the same time stepping up the RPMs. They apparently felt that the extra heat needed some help in shedding it.
As for an alarm, the steam alarm is about the most effective. It isn't like you're going down the road at 60 mph with your cooling system all tucked so neatly under a sleek hood that any steam is carried away out of sight and you never have a clue that you're boiling over. Them Farmalls, that radiator neck is hard to miss.
My BN (no pump, no gauge) cultivated beans and corn for days on end for years and never bothered about overheating. My SuperC doesn't bother about overheating, either. I use the gauge on it mostly to keep an eye on when to open the shutters in cold weather.
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