Right-Hand Drive 1980 C3 - Where does the water recovery b..

Greetings all,

I purchased a 1980 C3 a couple of years ago that had been neglected
and have been slowly correcting the handyman-type repairs that the
previous owner had attempted on my baby. Repairs like, any screw that
fits will do, wood screws holding the interior together, installation
tape holding the wiring in place and duct tape holding parts to the
framework.

Anyway, one of the things missing under the hood was the recovery
bottle for the radiator. The outlet next to the radiator cap emptied
into the engine compartment, and the seller could never understand why
he always had to add a litre of water to the radiator every time he
checked the level (insert Doh..) I never really had a problem with
overheating, which included driving through the Australian Outback in
45 degrees, but now I'm now trying to sort out this hindrance.

I purchased the correct reservoir bottle from Eckler, and as my car
has had the full mirror conversion when imported to right-hand drive,
I can't seem to fit the bottle in anywhere as it's too big : (

My logic is, that if the car spits out a litre through the overflow I
should be able to fit a smaller bottle that can tolerate the litre of
fluid spat out. I should be able to use a standard bottle or one from
another model of car as long as it can handle the amount of fluid. Am
I correct ? Any help or advice is appreciated, 'cause at the moment
I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Oh yea, The Ecklers bottle has to holes for pipes, I'm assuming that
the replacement bottle needs the same. The smaller pipe is obviously
for the output of the radiator, and I'm assuming that the big, fat
connector at the top is for the overflow of the bottle and needs to
have a dribbler pipe attached.

Thanks for reading this, and any data you have will be really
appreciated..

Paradox

Here is a '77
http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/brutus/enginebay.jpg

Paradox wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I purchased a 1980 C3 a couple of years ago that had been neglected
> and have been slowly correcting the handyman-type repairs that the
> previous owner had attempted on my baby. Repairs like, any screw that
> fits will do, wood screws holding the interior together, installation
> tape holding the wiring in place and duct tape holding parts to the
> framework.
>
> Anyway, one of the things missing under the hood was the recovery
> bottle for the radiator. The outlet next to the radiator cap emptied
> into the engine compartment, and the seller could never understand why
> he always had to add a litre of water to the radiator every time he
> checked the level (insert Doh..) I never really had a problem with
> overheating, which included driving through the Australian Outback in
> 45 degrees, but now I'm now trying to sort out this hindrance.
>
> I purchased the correct reservoir bottle from Eckler, and as my car
> has had the full mirror conversion when imported to right-hand drive,
> I can't seem to fit the bottle in anywhere as it's too big : (
>
> My logic is, that if the car spits out a litre through the overflow I
> should be able to fit a smaller bottle that can tolerate the litre of
> fluid spat out. I should be able to use a standard bottle or one from
> another model of car as long as it can handle the amount of fluid. Am
> I correct ? Any help or advice is appreciated, 'cause at the moment
> I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place...
>
> Oh yea, The Ecklers bottle has to holes for pipes, I'm assuming that
> the replacement bottle needs the same. The smaller pipe is obviously
> for the output of the radiator, and I'm assuming that the big, fat
> connector at the top is for the overflow of the bottle and needs to
> have a dribbler pipe attached.
>
> Thanks for reading this, and any data you have will be really
> appreciated..
>
> Paradox
>