Falcon website out of T bleeder valves? Whaddya think of this?
#1
Falcon website out of T bleeder valves? Whaddya think of this?
I copied what someone else did on another thread here. He used a 1/4 pipe tee fip, (2) 3/8 x 1/4 mip hose barbs, and a 1/4 square hose plug. He said it worked fine. My other LR3 has the Falconworks brass T bleeder. My question is ~ will those side barbs loosen and unscrew? The whole point being that the OEM bleeder disintegrated over time unexpectedly. I dont want the irony to be this one unscrewing and leaking coolant and...you know the rest - Whaddya think guys? (For my 2nd LR3)
#5
Paranoid it'll unthread.
Hiya. I picked up some Permatex Red RTV high temp silicone. Will that work? Thx. Doh!! I picked up silicone gasket. I think I need the thread lock seal instead.
Last edited by svs; 09-14-2021 at 05:33 PM.
#6
#7
So you're the guy who went full pipe ~
The following users liked this post:
douglastic (09-15-2021)
#8
#9
The homemade brass tee setup you have there will work just fine and will likely never fail again, but is overkill and a bit more expensive than necessary in my opinion. When I priced out that exact setup to fix my LR3 a couple years ago, it added up to over $20 in fittings (maybe I shop at the wrong places). I've never used the upper bleeder so I "straight piped" it like douglastic described above and have never had an issue.
#10
The homemade brass tee setup you have there will work just fine and will likely never fail again, but is overkill and a bit more expensive than necessary in my opinion. When I priced out that exact setup to fix my LR3 a couple years ago, it added up to over $20 in fittings (maybe I shop at the wrong places). I've never used the upper bleeder so I "straight piped" it like douglastic described above and have never had an issue.
The straight pipe idea is really a better way to go, didn't think of that at the time I needed my tee-when mine went, I had smelled some coolant, saw the tee weeping and said "hmm", touched it and it exploded at my touch. I was liucky to not get coolant burns.