1963 Cooling System Help Please

[Daniel S.]

I really appreciate the insight that I have been getting on this forum. I have a 1963 SWC and it is an early model. This is my first Corvette restoration and I bought a Gold Certified car, but it was certified about 10 years ago and needs to refreshing up. I have replaced almost the entire cooling system from the expansion tank to the radiator as well as all the hoses. I really want to put this car back together to NCRS standards. I have bought every book that I can find from NCRS and they each have bits and pieces of pictures of how all of the hoses mount.

I am still a little confused on the exact routing and placement of several of the hoses and exactly where the retainers go. Is there any resource that would have detailed pictures on the exactly how everything should look? Again, I have pieces from all of the available books, but not the entire system with focused pictures.

I just want to make sure that I put the car back exactly the way it came from the factory. Any information that you can provide would be extremely helpful.

Thank you for your time!
Dan

[Duke W.]

Re: 1963 Cooling System Help Please

Do you have a 1963 Assembly Instruction Manual? That will show the late configuration, however, there was at least one difference on the early cars - the routing of the vapor vent hose from the radiator to expansion tank. This may be noted in the latest revision of the JG, but I'm not sure.

SHP/FI engines also had and external bypass from the top of the coolant pump to the inlet manifold, which the 250/300 HP engines did not have.

Duke

[Donald A.]

Re: 1963 Cooling System Help Please

Dan. What engine and what is your VIN. Glad to help you as others helped me get this right. My 63 is May and 340 hp