Radiator repair

I used milliput and worked a treat, 2 part thingy me jig. Instructions mention rads. i just mix and leave for a few hours. easy to work with.

Im off to London in a hour and my car which the milliput in is 'tuver side of Sheffield so cant send you none.

If you want some quick try.

for fone #, its 1.99 plus postage

BTw email me direct too with follow ups to this post as i wont get them until next week and be long gone from here, emaill add is valeeeeeeeeeeeed

sPoNiX ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Why?

If it's a stone hole, then it may be worth repairing.

If it's corrosion, it's landfill. Don't try and bodge it, bin it.

Not to mention clagged rad core, blocked heater matrix.

Dunno.

There is a small plastic peg inserted into the matrix very near the leak with a number on it; presumably some sort of QA or serial marker? The leak is very near this peg so presumably it has weaked at this point?

Don't think it is corrosion as the rad is fairly new and looks otherwise OK.

I haven't come across a radiator yet that has been blocked with rad weld...rust yes...radweld no.

I recon that people fill old rusty radiators with radweld, dislodge a load of rust which blocks the waterways and blame it on the rad weld.

Is the "Radweld blocks your radiator" story just a myth or has anyone got evidence that it happens?

sPoNiX

Rad weld is a *very* bad idea, especially with a modern low coolant capacity / small passage-ways enigne. Very bad.

Tim..

Its more of a case that radweld blocks your engine. In the case of the Rover

2.5 and 2.7 V6's and K series it expressly says not to use in these engines as the coolant passageways are very easily blocked.

PSA and Renault heater matrix's block easily enough as it is so using any form of gunk in the cooling system is asking for problems.

Tim..

Haven't been able tofind any so am going to try some JB Weld liquid metal and see how that fares.

sPoNiX

Years ago I stuck a blob of well chewed Wrigley's gum over a small radiator leak. It worked a treat!

I agree, after years of experience I wouldn't put anything into a cooling system now, other than the proper coolant of course.

I have seen so many engine damaged by the blockage of small water ways due to this stuff. It's also very common to block the heater matrix too.

A £2.99 bodge can cost you hundreds.

There is only one way to deal with a collant leak, and that's to fix it properly. If you have a leak from the radiator, a decent radiator specialist might even repair your radiator for a small sum.

This near to Dunstable will know of Auto Radiator Services in Caddington of course, his quality of work and good prices or well known in the region.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net (Andy Hewitt) saying something like:

Seconded. The bloke is excellent.

JB Weld seems to have done the job for the time being. Excellent stuff...why haven't I discovered it before??

sPoNiX

Yes - it happened to me. Didn't cure the small head gasket leak, but completely ruined the radiator. OTOH, I've used Barr's Leaks several times with success.

Re the original post, I've fixed a badly leaking radiator by pouring liquid resin - as sold for glass fibre - to make a lump about an inch all round the leak, full depth of the rad. front to back. Worked a treat until I got round to replacing it, (~3k miles) and would probably have lasted a lot longer. Dave