Re: Rub his nose in it, throw him out the window-


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Posted by Clint Dixon [74.206.63.42] on Thursday, July 05, 2012 at 16:33:14 :

In Reply to: Re: Rub his nose in it, throw him out the window- posted by Kaegi [24.16.253.154] on Thursday, July 05, 2012 at 13:28:19 :

I looked in 23 different MoPar parts lists covering the Dodge Power Wagon model WDX-WM300, spanning the years 1945-1968, as well as 4 shop manuals.

All of these manuals show only two different part numbers for the radiator and overflow tank caps throughout the production run - #1189 708 as being used from 1945 through most of 1954, and #1501 880 as being used from 1954 through 1968. In each instance the overflow cap was indicated as being the same part number as the radiator cap. Neither part description indicated a pressurized cap.

The first number 1189 708, was listed in the December 1945 Preliminary parts list as being a new number having never been previously listed in a parts list. One could read into this the meaning that the cap was new to the civilian Power Wagon and had never been used on a military Dodge, a 2WD Dodge truck, nor any previous Chrysler product.

The only reference I find in the service manuals indicates that a "pressure vent type radiator filler cap" was used on some truck models, but model designation for the Power Wagon was left out of the lists of truck models that that particular cap fit - at least up through 1954.

So, does this mean that the new number issued for the radiator cap that appeared in 1954 meant that the design was changed from a non-pressurized system to a pressurized system, or that the radiator cap changed in some other way not relating to pressure?

I don't know the answer. I am most familiar with civilian trucks from 1946 through 1952 and I have never seen a pressurized cap on a radiator or overflow tank in one of these trucks that appeared to be original to the truck.

Do you have a military part number for the 2-3 lb pressure cap? I can check that number against the 23 civilian Power Wagon parts lists and see if that part number appears in any of their numerical listings.

Junior



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