New CMP owner

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Micheal

Your 1st picture showing the top of the radiator - shows the over flow pipe coming out the driver side, so I don't think the radiator is the correct/original CMP no mater if it works. Measure how thick the core is though so we can compare it to known good cooling CMPs might be under sized. A temporary fix for not having a coolant recovery tank is a gallon plastic jug with a rubber hose to the over flow tube and all the way to the bottom of the jug. Fill the radiator start the engine and see how much coolant is pushed out once the engine is war let it cool see if it sucks the coolant back in.

2nd Photo shows two things some one has put a by pass from the thermostat housing to water pump, this is not necessarily bad as it actually allows the water to circulated around the block and that way actually get the thermostat up to temperature. About the thermostat is there one? In the 2nd photo I can see the crank pulley but from the looks of it the water pump and crank are mismatched causing the water pump to turn much faster than it should which can cause cooling issues depending on which water pump.



3rd Photo that plug you circled is the temperature gauge sensor. Which instrument group do you have 5 gauges or single large unit?

4th Photo showing carb I've attached some photos of how I worked around this issue. Big oil bath like the original is my desired solution but what I've done for now keeps the dust and small animals out of the intake. The throat of the carb you have look larger than a CMP.

Hope this helps

Cheers Phil