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Buy a new radiator
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Fix it with acetone glue.
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Cracked Radiator
#1
Cracked Radiator
Just yesterday I drove back from corpus christi and my truck over heated. In the prosses, apperently the extreme pressure caused a small crack on the edge of the radiator. What should I do? It looks to be plastic, so Can i just DIY it and use acetone glue to seal it or should I just buy a new one?
#5
If he got it hot enough to crack the radiator he has a lot more to worry about than just a head gasket.
#7
The only good thing that came of this is that I found out the little black thing mounted under my steering wheel is an unconnected fog light switch (which I immediatly reconnected. so now I have working fogs FTW).
Now as you can see, I didnt over heat the engine so bad that I royaly f*cked things up. The only damage is the stupid little crack the size of a thread. But its just big enough to leak a nice 50 drops per minute at normal temps (about 175-185)
#10
#11
Ill look at that. When the guy sold this truck to me the radiator fluid was pure brown and smelled like rust. Thus why my engine bay is now covered in brown. Ive only had this thing for a couple of weeks and I hadnt gotten around to changing the fluids. I guess now Im paying the price. But what pisses me off the most is that when I left it at the stealership for a whole week I told them to do a full sweep on the truck.. And noone thought the rust colored radiator fluid was a bad sign?
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