Interested!
I just bought a new oem this weekend after my radiator failed catastrophically. This was at 215,000 miles about 30,000 miles after a timing belt, water pump, thermostat, coolant, etc. service with all OEM toyota parts. Had to drive 6 hours to get it and then installed it in a campground, could have been worse, but it wasn't good.
I had recently repaired an HJ60 radiator for a guy in a parking lot and that had me thinking about trying to have a brass unit built from mixed parts so at least I would have a field serviceable unit.. alas I didn't get that far.
In this case the top tank split on the front side where the return flow would come in. I suspect this was just a life/heat cycling issue that caused failure but don't recall reading here about a lot of blown radiators. How common is this?
Definitely interested in more field serviceable options!
I just bought a new oem this weekend after my radiator failed catastrophically. This was at 215,000 miles about 30,000 miles after a timing belt, water pump, thermostat, coolant, etc. service with all OEM toyota parts. Had to drive 6 hours to get it and then installed it in a campground, could have been worse, but it wasn't good.
I had recently repaired an HJ60 radiator for a guy in a parking lot and that had me thinking about trying to have a brass unit built from mixed parts so at least I would have a field serviceable unit.. alas I didn't get that far.
In this case the top tank split on the front side where the return flow would come in. I suspect this was just a life/heat cycling issue that caused failure but don't recall reading here about a lot of blown radiators. How common is this?
Definitely interested in more field serviceable options!