[DeTomaso] cooling question

[Christopher Kimball]

Thanks for the encouraging words.

I have to say, though, that although I absolutely love the car, especially driving it (which is the main reason I bought it--even though I really enjoy the shows, too), after the $9000.00-new-motor-fiasco (I still don't think the motor is running as well as it should), a teeny-tiny bit of discouragement began to infect my brain.  

Having to have the car returned to my house on a flat-bed tow truck while coming home from a 150-mile trip in September didn't help, and now experiencing a leak in a new (less than 10,000 miles) radiator, with all new hoses, is causing me to consider changing my Pantera's name from Pandora to Christine.  And we all know how it turned out for the owner of the silver screen Christine...!

Sincerely,

Chris

PS:  Our annual PNW Christmas party is tonight, and my wife said there is no way she's going to travel there with me in the Pantera.  Although the old joke would have me say, "OK dear, I'll tell everyone at the party you said 'Hi!'" I'll instead probably be driving one of our other cars to the event.

Maybe all I need is a little Pantera Club Christmas cheer.


> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:13:22 -0800
> From: asajay at asajay.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] cooling question
> 
> Hang in there Chris, things aren't that bad.   You've got a great 
> support group over there.  Try to figure out where the leak is, how big 
> it is, and if you were correct that it was a rock.  It's a messy and 
> long job but it -can- be done.  These things can happen to -any- car.  
> It's just that the newer cars seem to hide the radiator behind a lot of 
> plastic front end.  ;)
> 
> Keep the faith.
> Asa Jay
> 
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> &  Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
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> On 12/3/2010 21:17, Christopher Kimball wrote:
> > 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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