fyton2v
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Hi. I've searched and I can't find info specific enough to ensure I'm about to do the right thing. I'm cleaning out my cooling system and the heater core (because it doesn't work well). It's a little rusty in there. I know the heater elbow doesn't have much life left, so I should replace it while the system is dry-ish. Looking at the part, it's really 2 elbows. One for the head and one for the hose. It looks like SOR sells a brass straight thread-to-barb replacement. Is that what people do? That hose coming from the valve cover would be in the way, a bit.
And after searching, is the elbow connecting to the head is supposed to be 1/2 NPT, or is it 1/2 NPT from the hose 90 to the head 90? And the hose is 5/8? Curious if any of you have replaced these two 90 connections and how you did just that. Another thought, brass connectors from a big box store would probably work, but they are also probably not rated for temps above 160 degrees. And that doesn't sound like a real world problem for the pressure inside the the 2Fs cooling system, but throwing it out there.
Thanks for the help.
And after searching, is the elbow connecting to the head is supposed to be 1/2 NPT, or is it 1/2 NPT from the hose 90 to the head 90? And the hose is 5/8? Curious if any of you have replaced these two 90 connections and how you did just that. Another thought, brass connectors from a big box store would probably work, but they are also probably not rated for temps above 160 degrees. And that doesn't sound like a real world problem for the pressure inside the the 2Fs cooling system, but throwing it out there.
Thanks for the help.
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