So mine had a crack in the plastic and had a hole half the size of a dime I covered the hole with jb weld do you think I will have a issue if the job weld leaked in the radiator it's a new one just not used it got a hold somehow@@jakemakes
Just buy a replacement, older a radiator gets the more clogs it develops in the lines thus less efficient cooling. My old 07 Silverado rad blew up from simple driving was clogged beyond. Fans were basically always on even in 40f temps. Once replaced fans barely came at 60f. Don't cheap out, you already took out the rad l, just replace it fully.
2000 s10 original radiator still going. Flushed it for the first time ever a couple weeks ago. Was pure rust mud. Hasn't had antifreeze in it since 15 years just water. Runnin clean now dawg lol
In the same line as this fix.... In 2005 my friend had a 99 civic hatch with a K20 from a RSX in it. The car was lowered and that engine sits low as well. Well... he hit a manhole cover in his GFs neighborhood and I fixed it with a dime covering the hole and JB weld quick. We might have gave it 20 min. Poured in the oil and sent it. It worked until he did it the next time. I fixed this 4 times using the next size coin each time.
Just use lead solder. Lead free is more difficult. Just be sure to get flux/acid. Super easy and that's what the radiator uses. Not sure how good jb weld will work but better than nothing.
Jb weld will eventually fail woth liquid like that, I had some to seal my windshield wiper fluid and it lasted for about a year or so before it started leaking.
Aluminum soldering is not difficult, heat the area with a hot air station or heat gun, take a soldering iron (one that doesn't suck ass) and some acid core solder and do like you would normally solder. Well, relatively normal.
Yeah, the old redneck I bought the truck from had rigged the radiator in place with wires. It came loose and started hitting the fan. I properly reaffixed it with some bolts and L brackets
Bro, just straighten the fins, apply a liquid flux, and then use a lead solder or up the heat and use some map gas and hard solder. I can't thumb this up.
Well, that works as a temporary fix, but it doesn't seem very reliable. There's quite a bit of pressure in the cooling system and I'm not sure if this would hold for long.
