[DeTomaso] cooling question

[Christopher Kimball]

It may be a small job for you, but the last time I tried to do anything in the radiator department, namely adding a third fan, I succeeded in breaking the radiator so that I had to replace it.  That was about $600 as I recall, and another hundred or so to have someone who knew what they were doing put the new radiator back in.

I'm beginning to think someone is trying to tell me something about this car...

Chris

> From: wdemelo at cogeco.ca
> To: chrisvkimball at msn.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooling question
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:02:10 -0500
> 
> 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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