Right-Hand Drive 1980 C3 - Where does the water recovery bottle go ??

Greetings all,

I purchased a 1980 C3 a couple of years ago that had been neglected and have been slowly correcting the handyman-type repairs that the previous owner had attempted on my baby. Repairs like, any screw that fits will do, wood screws holding the interior together, installation tape holding the wiring in place and duct tape holding parts to the framework.

Anyway, one of the things missing under the hood was the recovery bottle for the radiator. The outlet next to the radiator cap emptied into the engine compartment, and the seller could never understand why he always had to add a litre of water to the radiator every time he checked the level (insert Doh..) I never really had a problem with overheating, which included driving through the Australian Outback in

I purchased the correct reservoir bottle from Eckler, and as my car has had the full mirror conversion when imported to right-hand drive, I can't seem to fit the bottle in anywhere as it's too big : (

My logic is, that if the car spits out a litre through the overflow I should be able to fit a smaller bottle that can tolerate the litre of fluid spat out. I should be able to use a standard bottle or one from another model of car as long as it can handle the amount of fluid. Am I correct ? Any help or advice is appreciated, 'cause at the moment I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place...

Oh yea, The Ecklers bottle has to holes for pipes, I'm assuming that the replacement bottle needs the same. The smaller pipe is obviously for the output of the radiator, and I'm assuming that the big, fat connector at the top is for the overflow of the bottle and needs to have a dribbler pipe attached.

Thanks for reading this, and any data you have will be really appreciated..

Paradox

Thanks Bob, but unfortunately mine's a right-hand drive and there's not much space for the bottle, also, It's a California build, so it's got all that extra filter stuff as well...

Nice picture though, really clean inside, I can see It's going to be quite a while before my engine bay looks like that..

Thanks again Paradox