Help!! Plastic Radiator Top

[steffan]

I had a similar experience: radiator was perfect so there was no way I was going to replace it for just the nipple. Even though its relatively low pressure/ light load, I wouldn't do it without a sleeve, didn't feel there was enough material there to hold it. Drilled it out, roughed up the pipe, made sure there was good coverage inside and out (making sure not to obstruct the passageway) and put the JB Weld to it. 10k miles no issues.

 

[Stevesnj]

Or next time a radiator repair shop could just repair and braze another brass nipple on. The plasict nipple may be tougher.

 

[steffan]

My understanding is that they are plastic - if they were metal we wouldn't have this problem..... Or, I could just be a little more careful. Either way, the sleeved repair has to be stronger than the original

 

[Mr. Toad]

How is this holding up?

Toad?

Long term report?

Can You Tell me how everything went, as I'm in an emergency situation and $Flat$Broke$ & Must get back on the road...could you "Please" tell me, how long this lasted...???
Thank You Sooo Much My Friend...!!!
(UFOBill)~**

Sorry fellas. I don't come.on here much these days.

So the repair worked fine until early 2011. Probably 40-50k miles. It would probably still be working fine right now, but I had to have the radiator out for another repair and figured it was time to replace it. So this is the most epic, awesome, $5 repair of all time and deserves to have its own sticky, no make that its own forum. lol.

 

[eplazajennings]

Questions on throttle body coolant line delete

True, you could stand to gain 1-2 horses by not heating the throttle body. IIRC neither my Firebird Formula or my Mustang 5.0 had that on thier TBs.

Anyone know of people running without this hose? seriously considering getting rid of mine. How cold of temps do people think would be an issue?

 

[084runnerltd]

Just posted a walk-through, to what I did.....much of the same but I "dumbed" it down for 1 banana peeps like me.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/80-series-tech/783087-radiator-nipple-fix-walk-through.html#post8893467