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Re: rad caps
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 10/27/2006

It depends :). The newer vehicles runs around 200f some times higher, too risky to use low pressure cap imo.

However older vehicle that runs about 180f and should not go over 200f (ambient temp, towing, etc is very important), you can get away with 7 psi cap... Login to read more.