How safe is it to use a glass liquor bottle for the coolant reservoir?

I have a Hennessy bottle i wana use but i dont want it breaking on me

 

as long as you mount it so it doesnt bounce around and hit things to break should be fine

 

Yea i figured rattles and vibration will cause a break but what about the heat?

 

it takes glass a huge amount of heat to fracture/melt from heat. google returns something in the realm of ~200°C to fracture from heat itself.

 

Sweet. Then i might be doin this soon!

 

figure the most amount of engine coolant temp it will see is about 250* AT MOST......... if it does, you have bigger issues than the bottle breaking.

find a way to wrap it in a rubber foam base and upper brace too.... should be fine.

 

Thanks SD

 

wrap that **** in foam and stuff. Don't want you to deal with glass and sheit

 

i got a large sapporo bottle zip tied to a frame rail. been driving like that for a year.

 

if i wrap it in foam then i wont be able to show it off i want. Lol.

Ima have to find some material to cushion it

 

lol just where you tie it down, not the whole thing

 

Haha. I figured that. Lol. Thought id be a smartass

 

Look back to the 50's and early 60's Chevys, they used glass bottles for window washer tanks and also bottles for holding extra washer fluid, some even had glass jars connected to a vacuum ashtray, they only used metal to glass bracketry with no problems.

 

Im actually guna have to search that. I wana get ideas for brackets

 

use 2 hole pipe or conduit clamps. you can get them in metal and plastic from lowes or home depot. i used a 2" clamp to mount an oil pressure sending unit to my fire wall. you can get some pretty big ones too, prob up to 6" without a big issue

 

2-Hole Conduit Strap at ElectricianSupplies!

like this but bigger, metal or plastic.

 

I think a flexible strap would be nice. hell, if you wanna empty it or something, loosen strap and pop, ready to do it in 2 seconds

 

Ima try to use cotter pins in case i gotta take it out. Something i can take off quik and easy