The Jalopy Way to Understand the Bible
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Do you remember the first time you looked under the hood of a car? You may have to go way back in your memory banks to pull up those first images and how your responded to the sight of all the ’stuff’ you saw under the hood. Maybe you still respond the same way today when it becomes necessary to pop the latch to see what is going on.
I would guess that for each of us, that first glimpse was one of confusion and wonder. So many wires and strange shaped objects. We wondered what was that do-hickey for and where did that snaky, black thing go after it went under that what-cha-ma-callit and over to the whozit with all the dirty stuff on it. We couldn’t use technical terms because we had no knowledge of what it was we were looking at or what its function was. In essence, it was a great mystery to us. There were some of us who wanted to put our hands on the different things we saw in order to try to figure things out while there others of us were just as happy to close the hood and forget what it was we had looked at.
My father owned ‘fixer-uppers’ most of the years that I spent at home growing up. I can remember him taking parts out of them, working on them, and then putting parts back in so that the machine could roar back to life. There were times that the vehicle being repaired was the only vehicle we owned so it was imperative to make the fixes in a timely manner if anyone was going to get a ride to the supermarket or to work. Being a boy and easily bored, I didn’t always sit with my dad while he was making a repair but there were times that I did. It was during those times that some of the mystery was explained and the understanding of mechanics was passed on from one generation to the next. I can remember him drawing a picture on a piece of paper that described how an internal combustion engine generated motion through lots of tiny explosions that pushed opposing pistons up and down within the engine block. That motion was then passed onto to the transmission through gears which caused the axle to rotate which in turn created forward motion of the vehicle.
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What should be done with extraneous pipes on a car radiator?
Hi everyone,
I'm replacing the radiator in my 1993 Honda del Sol on my own, but I don't have much experience working on cars. I bought a new radiator over the phone and was assured that it was the proper fit for the vehicle, but when it came I found that it has two pipes coming off the bottom that are not present on the original radiator. Otherwise, the two radiators appear identical. Here is a link to a picture of the new radiator, with the extraneous pipes circled in red: http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/with_pi pes.jpg.
My fear is that the pipes are supposed to be the hookups for an automatic transmission, but my car is a manual, as I clearly indicated to the operator on the phone.
I was hoping someone could tell me what those pipes are for, and if I am supposed to plug them up or something since I have nothing to connect them to. If they are for automatic transmission coolant, could I just connect them together with a hose?
Thanks a lot for any help.
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I'm going to assume that they are indeed for an automatic transmission application. Real simple to check....put a hose on one pipe and blow in it. Is the air coming out the other pipe? If it is, they are indeed transmission cooler connections. If that is the case, just plug them....to keep stuff from getting into them and causing rot from the inside, there won't be any pressure on these connections and you wont lose any coolant out of them, so simple plastic caplugs will work, available at any hardware store.
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