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Another Slick 50 tale.
Driving to work, o'dark thirty on the San Diego Freeway north bound right at the 605 junction, I noticed the warm air from the heater had turned cold. This was in an '85 Mustang GT 5.0 convertible and it was cold outside. I checked the temp gauge and it showed a little below normal. I played with the heater controls wondering what happened to the heat? Check the temp gauge again and it show cold. Uh oh, must not be any water in it. So, how do I get back home without shutting off the engine? No gas stations open in an area I know so which off ramp to turn around quickly. I get off up in Long Beach and zip under the freeway and get right back on. Get home OK and look under the hood. Bottom radiator hose had blown off and dumped all the water. I waited till it cooled down completely, then filled it back up and burped the system.
Car ran fine after that. Only thing I can think of that saved that engine was me having run Slick 50 in it the oil change before that episode. I felt really lucky as that was a new long block I'd installed when I got the car. It had about 50k miles on it when this happened IIRC.
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Scott
'78 SC mit Sportomatic - Sold
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