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Coolant Filter

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68angrypony

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What are my options for a Coolant filter? I believe my upper hose is 1.5inch diameter. With knowing nothing about the motor and having a brand new radiator, I am thinking it would be a smart idea to filter that coolant flow into the radiator.
 
Tefba's are readily available on Flea Bay. You will see that they come in different sizes. What is nice about tefba as compared to Gano is that at any time, you can remove the screen and clean it whereas with Gano, you need to drain some of the coolant to get below the filter and then you disconnect the hose from the filter, etc. Too much work.
 
For a street car that doesn't see high rpm I think they are great and I ran one for a while. As soon as I started taxing my motor on the track I blew hoses off, split hoses and even blew a freeze plug out the block! Spent an entire year blowing coolant over tracks all over the place. Turned out that even with a completely clean screen my Gano created enough back pressure to cause issues. I removed it and have never had an issue since.
 
"Shaun" said:
For a street car that doesn't see high rpm I think they are great and I ran one for a while. As soon as I started taxing my motor on the track I blew hoses off, split hoses and even blew a freeze plug out the block! Spent an entire year blowing coolant over tracks all over the place. Turned out that even with a completely clean screen my Gano created enough back pressure to cause issues. I removed it and have never had an issue since.
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good to know. I just figured it would be a good idea to put one in for a little while to see what comes out of the engine. Don't want to gunk up a new radiator but at the same time don't want to mess up my engine if it does see some track time.
 
I agree that the best time to use one is when you are breaking in a new motor. Once everything settles down, you can probably remove it.
 
"cmayna" said:
I agree that the best time to use one is when you are breaking in a new motor. Once everything settles down, you can probably remove it.
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I use a Gano and agree with Craig.
 
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