Spend 5 hours of your time and $50 to buy all the tools and fittings to do the job.
OR…spend $100 bucks on a new radiator from the auto parts store. Drain the coolant. Replace the radiator. Refill the coolant and be done in an hour or so.
5 hours!!?? wtf! 🤣🤣 15 mins bro she’s good. You guys crack me up! Tools can be rented, tools can be purchased and returned in a real pinch. Like others have also said.
Clean it, drill it, thread it, small amount of black rtv silicone around the brass fitting, tighten, clean hose of broken nipple, place hose on brass and if you really want to make sure it’s sealed let sit overnight or at least a few hours.
I have successfully done this job too many times and some not even threaded a hole. I could make a damn BIC ink pen work for the fix. Hell a BIC ink pen and BIC lighter she’s ready to roll!!
Oh yeah all this done under and hour. In my garage sitting here 15 mins then wait for silicone to dry.
How many other ways you need to fix it? I don’t suspect you could successfully pull off this fix especially not replace the radiator. Not all of us have money laying around.
Right and imagine if he still went this route and the repair didn’t take. May have learned a new skill but all for the same outcome as just replacing plus 50 losts dollars.
Just JB weld it back on, it’s only a coolant overflow.
Anybody who tells you different doesn’t know what they’re doing.
If it was me I’d put a sleeve inside and join the broken pieces together with epoxy or something similar, then just epoxy or JB weld the crack.
It’s not under any pressure, it’s simply a coolant overflow,
You could leave it as it is now and it would operate fine if you kept your coolant levels up. EPA might not be happy about the coolant you’re dumping on the road though.
Honestly if it was my vehicle ( and yea I’m a mechanic) I would patch it up until such time as I needed a radiator, which could be years.
Just so you know vehicles used to just run this hose to the ground,
Use a piece of brake line that fits in the hole with a bit of epoxy on that. It will both seal and reinforce the broken piece. Or just go the old school route and just send it, though this radiator doesnt have the upper tank volume with that in mind.
Exactly just glue a metal pipe in, use a drill to make sure you didn’t block off the pipe once the glue has set then glue the broken piece back on over the pipe.
Use it until the radiator cracks or you have money to buy a new radiator
This is a real mechanics response, hell yeah done more than one. I would never replace a radiator for such, easy fix.
But how long will it last ?
please explain how??
He’s like “NO” lol
Spend 5 hours of your time and $50 to buy all the tools and fittings to do the job.
OR…spend $100 bucks on a new radiator from the auto parts store. Drain the coolant. Replace the radiator. Refill the coolant and be done in an hour or so.
5 hours!!?? wtf! 🤣🤣 15 mins bro she’s good. You guys crack me up! Tools can be rented, tools can be purchased and returned in a real pinch. Like others have also said.
Clean it, drill it, thread it, small amount of black rtv silicone around the brass fitting, tighten, clean hose of broken nipple, place hose on brass and if you really want to make sure it’s sealed let sit overnight or at least a few hours.
I have successfully done this job too many times and some not even threaded a hole. I could make a damn BIC ink pen work for the fix. Hell a BIC ink pen and BIC lighter she’s ready to roll!!
Oh yeah all this done under and hour. In my garage sitting here 15 mins then wait for silicone to dry.
How many other ways you need to fix it? I don’t suspect you could successfully pull off this fix especially not replace the radiator. Not all of us have money laying around.
Right and imagine if he still went this route and the repair didn’t take. May have learned a new skill but all for the same outcome as just replacing plus 50 losts dollars.
Just JB weld it back on, it’s only a coolant overflow.
Anybody who tells you different doesn’t know what they’re doing.
If it was me I’d put a sleeve inside and join the broken pieces together with epoxy or something similar, then just epoxy or JB weld the crack.
It’s not under any pressure, it’s simply a coolant overflow, You could leave it as it is now and it would operate fine if you kept your coolant levels up. EPA might not be happy about the coolant you’re dumping on the road though.
Honestly if it was my vehicle ( and yea I’m a mechanic) I would patch it up until such time as I needed a radiator, which could be years.
Just so you know vehicles used to just run this hose to the ground,
Does an inner sleeve restrict flow too much, overlow or not? Finding an exact tight tube that’s thin would be too much of a time waste.
Use a piece of brake line that fits in the hole with a bit of epoxy on that. It will both seal and reinforce the broken piece. Or just go the old school route and just send it, though this radiator doesnt have the upper tank volume with that in mind.
Exactly just glue a metal pipe in, use a drill to make sure you didn’t block off the pipe once the glue has set then glue the broken piece back on over the pipe. Use it until the radiator cracks or you have money to buy a new radiator
It’s definitely under pressure i had the same issue and when it bust it started pouring steam out
It’s not under pressure. Sounds like your car overheated.