Radiator replacement?
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Odd man out here and a contrarian by nature.
Service manual will help you out, but actually it's pretty straight forward and fairly simple. I do this stuff for a living, BTW and hate working on my own cars, hate it worse for others to work on them.
A couple of years ago I was talking to my friend, a senior tech at Porsche about radiator tank seepage. He mentioned well over $1K and less than $2K if I brought it by the shop, then turned and whispered, "Alumaseal".
$6.50 later, 100% seal, no coolant loss in 2 years, 105 degrees last summer, no fear of summer long distance travel, 167 mph pull, all good :-)
Service manual will help you out, but actually it's pretty straight forward and fairly simple. I do this stuff for a living, BTW and hate working on my own cars, hate it worse for others to work on them.
A couple of years ago I was talking to my friend, a senior tech at Porsche about radiator tank seepage. He mentioned well over $1K and less than $2K if I brought it by the shop, then turned and whispered, "Alumaseal".
$6.50 later, 100% seal, no coolant loss in 2 years, 105 degrees last summer, no fear of summer long distance travel, 167 mph pull, all good :-)
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Like I said, I do this stuff for a living. If I had a customer with a $150K cost (new) car with a radiator seepage problem, I'd recommend 3 new rads, coolant hoses, coolant, any related hardware and try to upsell a water pump too.
My job is to offer the very best and make my customer happy with no more coolant related issues for a very long time.
For myself, my job is to get the most mileage out of any and all components on my vehicles. I want everything 100% safe and functional. If I can add a little coolant sealer to stop a seepage and brush off off any residue where my rads will look 100% and function perfectly as well, I'd go that route on my own stuff. My rads did look nothing like those in the pic however. From experience a little seepage can leave a crusty mess without actually dripping coolant on the ground. Either way you may get the coolant smell when hot. The sealer will eliminate that as well.
My job is to offer the very best and make my customer happy with no more coolant related issues for a very long time.
For myself, my job is to get the most mileage out of any and all components on my vehicles. I want everything 100% safe and functional. If I can add a little coolant sealer to stop a seepage and brush off off any residue where my rads will look 100% and function perfectly as well, I'd go that route on my own stuff. My rads did look nothing like those in the pic however. From experience a little seepage can leave a crusty mess without actually dripping coolant on the ground. Either way you may get the coolant smell when hot. The sealer will eliminate that as well.
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