Re: Why does Ford pinch pennies with their radiators?
I once bought a brand new '75 Ford Granada Ghia with the 351W. It was a beautiful car in my opinion, but it did leak from the petcock where it screwed into the radiator. I looked down there and it was obvious that the brass petcock had been cross threaded into the radiator at the factory, thus causing the leak.
I took it to the dealer under warranty. It came back with some "plumbers helper" epoxy smeared around the cross threaded petcock, thus momentarily stopping the leak. I then removed the petcock and cleaned up the mess of the epoxy crap. I then was able to very carefully restart the petcock back into the radiator the way it should have gone in to begin with.
Needless to say, I wasn't exactly thrilled with the way my new Ford started it's career. There were many other issues that followed, but that was the first and the dumbest.
Rev
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'66 Coupe, 306, 350-375 HP, C-4, 13.07 e.t., 104.8 mph, 1/4 mi.
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Last edited by Rev; 04-30-2006 at 06:32 PM..
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