Re: [AMC-list] AND ANOTHER THING 195.6

[wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

In my minds eye. The trick is simply to flow water past the bulb on the Tstat and back to the suction side of the water pump without cooing it anywhere. Would not a very simple thread and tap in the lower hose area of the water pump or a simple pipe with a T into the lower radiator hose. Heck, wrap the hose if needed. 
   Being decades past hands on experience with a 196. I can't point at an exact "fix" but the short run from the Tstat to lower rad hose sure seems simple and straightforward. If the water pump draws the water through the core and does not push then surely the heater hose t will work too. 
   The main thing so to not cool so much water you end up making the Tstat useless and run the engine to cool. Not likely, but possible. 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:02:00 
To: <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [AMC-list] AND ANOTHER THING 195.6

You could put a T in the heater return line and have the t-stat line go back to that though. I've seen a car or two plumbed like that, can't recall if it was an AMC or not, but there was one line to the heater then a T in the other heater line. Don't recall where the heater valve was exactly. I think it was in the line between the heater and the T. Easy to do on the 196, even retaining the origianl valve -- T in the stand pipe the valve is on. I think I mentioned that in my earlier post...

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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:57:31 -0800
From: tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 14:00, Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the FWIW category, the later sixes use a 5/8" hose for the bypass. It is
> plumbed into return side of the heater core lines in these engines. I don't
> know how hard it would be to do that on a 196 but it seems like it would be
> pretty simple to install a nipple near the t-stat and plug off the existing
> return fitting in the engine. If it's workable, it could even end up looking
> somewhat stockish.
>

Do you mean the 82-up water-cooled manifolds?

My '70 232, the heater bypasses the head by default. With the 82 manifold, I
have the heater in parallel with the heater with "Y"s. The 63 chassis has a
water shutoff valve; later engines leave the heater water on all the time
and just move the hot air around. So I can't plumb my heater like a
late-model.

Same on the 195.6; with the heater OFF, no hot water flows. Worse, the
heater return runs into a dedicated INLET in the water pump; the water pump
pumps from TWO sources, the bottom of the radiator and the heater.

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