Hello everyone,
I recently got my 228 together and running after having the water pump and head rebuilt. As I was burping the cooling system I noticed that I wasn't getting any flow from the head to the radiator. I checked the thermostat it was good. I even removed it and ran the engine, but I still wasn't getting any flow or pressure built up in the system. Well, I ended up burning up the head gasket in the process, so I'm back to square one. I'm new to these old engines so help me out here. One thing that I can't wrap my head around is, if guys are running a 4psi radiator cap, how is that metered without being able to bleed off the excess pressure? On my radiator, there isn't a bleed line on the fill neck like there is on newer cars. I really don't have the time and money to go through this again, so I'd like to figure this out before replacing the gasket again.
