What Water Overflow are you using on your rig?

rich_d · #1 10-15-2005, 06:58 AM

Just curious, after my Water Overflow container bit the big one yesturday, What radiator overflow container are you all using for your samurai?

To get by I used a weed spayer bottle, the kind you hook to a hose and fill it with concentrate and it mixes as it sprays...
just drilled 1/2 inch hole in the top for the tube and zip tied the bottle to the support for the radiator.

Oh, if you have a samurai overflow container in your vast piles of samurai parts, I need one, please PM me.
Thanks

Sarge · #2 10-15-2005, 07:41 AM

I just use the stock one, may have a spare here .
Sarge

zuku26 · #3 10-15-2005, 09:41 AM

I had to use the medical tape out of my kit to tape my in. For some reason the area that it mounts to either wore out or expanded on the bottle itself, strange. I was thinking about getting one of those cool "import racer" looking ones once I started dressing up the engine bay.

88.5 Samurai · #4 10-15-2005, 07:31 PM

I used one off of a 16v Tracker. When I installed the power steering on the Sami the stock overflow interfered with the hydraulic hoses. The Tracker one is a lot shorter so it cleared the hoses easily.

#5 10-15-2005, 09:12 PM

When I got my first 'Zuki the over flow bottle had a hole approx. 1-1/2 in. by 3/4 inch on one corner right where the side meets the bottom with a deteriorated area around it. I removed the deteriorated material back to solid plastic (which just about doubled the size of the hole) and stuffed the bottle with toilet paper leaving a hollow under the hole to “key” a patch in. I then covered the hole with JB Weld on the outside. After the JB Weld dried, I removed the toilet paper and voila! a new bottle. I lost a little liquid capacity, but not enough to matter. This is my daily driver and the bottle is still functioning almost a year and a half later.

Mel

rich_d · #6 10-15-2005, 10:44 PM

any pictures???

grumpy · #7 10-16-2005, 06:55 PM

I am using an "extreme drink" bottle. They are thick alumanum and gives me a faster feel. Kind of like using the NOS octane booster.

rich_d · #8 10-16-2005, 08:51 PM

[img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]I am hoping that if weeds see me comming their way, they will just roll over and die... with the weed sprayer bottle on display..... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]