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Ben Jammin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 1:10 am: | |
Did any of you MCI-9 people take the tank behind the mirror. If you did what did you do with the lines going down into what I think is the radiator tank. Was this a heat exchanger. I cut the copper lines when I took the tank out now Im' not sure if that tank is needed or not.
Is the tank below it the radiator expansion tank or was it a reservoir for the bathroom.
Thanks for any help. |
Marc Bourget
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 1:44 am: | |
The part's book will identify which is which.
Look on Gumpydog's site and you'll see the radiator header tank.
IMHO, the copper lines went to the bathroom reservoir tank.
It's about 2' long, 12" high and a tapered polygon from the side. |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 9:09 am: | |
It's the restroom reservoir tank. Cutting the lines and removing
the four bolts, is the fastest way to get the thing out (if you want
to bother taking it out?). I don't plan to use that hole for anything,
so mine may stay as-is. Two of the bolts are to the right and
between the tank bottom and mounting surface, It's a pain...... |
Ben Jammin
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 10:21 pm: | |
Thank's John
So it don't hurt anything to just leave the old lines in the header tank? |
John MC9
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:24 pm: | |
I cut the tubes off on mine. It takes about 3 minutes using the
4-1/2 grinder (2 min to find the goggles).. I may or may not
remove that tank. It can be re-used for a genset tank, or
whatever I can dream up. I'm just a L.O.B. and since I don't
plan to use that space for anything, it doesn't matter if the
tank remains.
Leave the tubes? Yeah, I guess. As long as they don't rattle?
It might drive you nuts to have loose tubes rattling with the
AC vibration at night...?
We all do things our own way; some of it right, and some of
it wrong, but as long as it suits our requirements, who else's
business is it? |
David Dulmage (Daved)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 10:26 am: | |
I suggest taking out the tank and cutting off the lines. In our bus, that area where the tank was is now part of a cupboard and provides valuable storage space. The rear and centre luggage bays on our bus are used mainly for fresh and waste water holding tanks, propane tanks, heating, hot water and a/c sytems, leaving part of the centre bay free and all of the front bay empty for transporting those items considered essential. However, every extra bit of storage space within the coach is valuable as well, especially if travelling with other family members as we do from tiem to time. One of the exercises my sweetheart as agreed to is to review the use of the many Tupperware™ containers we have on board so that we can leave those we never use at home. It seems there's never quite as much storage space as one might want.
FWIW
DaveD |