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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #15 on: March 16, 2009, 11:10:43 AM »
my rad is pipe thread with that same chessy plastic plug... I bought mine off ebay, the fan combo comes with a sub generic fan, better to spend your money on a good fan IMO...
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #16 on: March 16, 2009, 11:13:16 AM »
If it's that same cheesy plug it's not taper pipe thread. It would be straight pipe thread.O-ring fittings are not taper thread.
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #17 on: March 16, 2009, 11:15:08 AM »
well i screwed a brass pipe thread bung into it and it had plenty of resistance going in...I am putting my electric fan switch in that hole, Ill drain the system from the engine since its so high above...
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #18 on: March 16, 2009, 11:28:11 AM »
Of course it threaded in.It's the same pitch. Of course it had resistance. The thread on the plug is smaller and gets bigger. Just cause you CAN do something doesn't make it right.You are asking for trouble by doing what you did.
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2009, 03:44:33 PM »
At least run a tapered NPT tap into it. It may end up deep in the bung but it should seal by running a tap in a bit. I guess it depends on the major and minor diameters of the straight threads. There was a little discussion about the tap idea earlier.
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2009, 04:02:37 PM »
When i brought my first one it had the brass fitting, and when i brought my second one it had the plastic one, you can buy the brass fittings off the shelf from your local shop, dont know what they call them over there, but theres a place here called purple pig that deals with everything like that.
Artie, i like your idea. weld it up! it takes days to drain the fluid from it anyway.
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2009, 12:19:44 AM »
taper!!! taper got introduced as what seemed a misreading of "thread tape" :m
If you run a tapered tap through it, how's that gonna work?
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2009, 05:35:36 AM »
not through, just into enough to cut a taper then back it out
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Re: Aluminium Civic Radiator
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2009, 06:00:58 AM »
Quote from: trojan on March 17, 2009, 12:19:44 AM
taper!!! taper got introduced as what seemed a misreading of "thread tape" :m
If you run a tapered tap through it, how's that gonna work?
Ummm,like ANY pipe thread does?
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