[DeTomaso] cooling question

Will Demelo wdemelo at cogeco.ca
Fri Dec 3 21:02:10 EST 2010


The stop-leak stuff is temporary. Pulling the rad is a small job. 2 beer job 
at the most. Pull it and fix it right.
Will
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
To: "Pantera List Serve" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 8:50 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] cooling question


>
> After a test drive this evening, I was dismayed to see a drops of coolant 
> dripping from the radiator onto the floor.
>
> The drops were few, and formed very slowly, and it appears they are coming 
> from the lower corner on the passenger side of the radiator.  The tiny 
> fins seem bent, as if a rock may have hit there at high speed.
>
> I've always been leery of those "stop leak" radiator concoctions, since it 
> seems to me it can't be good to be dumping stuff into a cooling system 
> designed to plug things up--especially a Pantera cooling system.
>
> I have a brass radiator which I know could be fixed, but the thought of 
> pulling it out is depressing.
>
> Should I try a radiator stop leak product first, or is that a bad thing to 
> do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
> #3846
>
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