leaky radiator
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Joined: Oct 2006
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Hey, if xlt want to go the cheap route, try permatex steel epoxy or j&b weld. If you find the exact spot and put this stuff on, there's a decent chance it will work. Then when you hit the big time with your upcoming paycheck, you can replace the rad--but it's true, don't go to the junkyard for it.
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Joined: Mar 2006
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From: North Carolina
Years ago a radiator man told me just the wear from years of coolant flowing thru a radiator wear away the thin flues to the point that you could stick a pin thru about any part of it.
Thats why when you used to get leaking tubes closed off & soldered other ones would almost immediately start leaking.... and so on.. When a rad is worn out only a whole new core will restore it.
And unless they get the old tanks well attached to a new core you may have premature problems even re-coring a used radiator. I hear they can repair & re-core the plastic/aluminum radiators but I'd replace one with a whole new warenteed one.
Dont cheap out on this job. It'll cost you more to replace it again in less than a year than to put the best one in you can find now. I've had cheap new ones leak, break, or leak trans fluid into the cooling system, thus ruining all your hoses and not helping the transmission.
Thats why when you used to get leaking tubes closed off & soldered other ones would almost immediately start leaking.... and so on.. When a rad is worn out only a whole new core will restore it.
And unless they get the old tanks well attached to a new core you may have premature problems even re-coring a used radiator. I hear they can repair & re-core the plastic/aluminum radiators but I'd replace one with a whole new warenteed one.
Dont cheap out on this job. It'll cost you more to replace it again in less than a year than to put the best one in you can find now. I've had cheap new ones leak, break, or leak trans fluid into the cooling system, thus ruining all your hoses and not helping the transmission.
