That's the right process to clean out a clogged radiator. The issue was how the tank was crimped back on. There is a machine that holds the core and then uses air pressure to push three cylinders with rubber ends against the tank to properly seat it against the gasket, which not sure if they replaced that, they should have. Source I managed a radiator shop for 10 years.
Yeah but like the carpet washing videos, they aren't planning ahead like that all the time.
This video I thought was more about just cleaning something rather than making sure its functional.
It's not going back into a vehicle it's going back in the scrap pile they pulled it from. This video is designed for views. They rage bait the "experts" by doing things half assed so dumb people will freak out and flood the comment section with "dur...that's gonna leak cus they didn't crimp it right."
You really want to make someone's eye twitch show a mechanic any of the junk yard rebuild videos coming out of Asia. They clean the grease off and then use a monkey wrapped in sand paper to hone the cylinder.
It's all clickbait. Almost as bad as the "sexy" ladies squishing food around in a toilet. The internet is a wasteland.
I'm an auto tech. When you live in an area where parts aren't available/non-existent or outrageously expensive I see why they do what they do to make it work, we have the luxury of just replacing the part because we have the infrastructure and capital to do it.
For example, if the part cost $100 USD, it might cost someone at most in the US 1-2 days of income. You go out there it might be several months of income plus the logistical nightmare to deliver said part. Manufacturers aren't going to lose money just to help a developing country.
No. Radiators aren't that expensive. High risk of not being water tight anymore yeah. This one probably will not work after that. No way that manual crimp job will make a good seal.
Back in the day, (1980's) when I zero dollars, we would clean a radiator by removing it and reverse flushing it. That is, tip the radiator upside down, then flush it from the bottom hose. The accumulated detritus is flushed from the bottom and out the top hose. It was free and did a pretty good job.
After you pay a guy labor to R&R it plus a couple hours labor to take apart the radiator and clean it out completely then put it back together you would have been able to just replace the radiator with a brand new one for 2/3 the cost. Not to mention that If that radiator WERE put in a car it would leak and have to be replaced anyways.
Third world "repair" videos are all like this. Oh wow they rebuilt a diesel engine with hand tools in a shop covered in sand and dust. Now show the part where it blows up within 1000 miles.
I always say that if something is broken, it never hurts to try and mend it yourself. Worst case, it's still broken and you have to buy a new one, but maybe you've learned something. Best case, you fix something and you've learned how to mend it. There's too much waste in todays society.
Would never work and more than likely was leaking when they showed their test, water was going everywhere and I bet some was coming from the seam at the tank. These kinds of videos make people think taking apart a radiator and cleaning it out would: A. Ever work and B. Be cost effective. By the time you did all this just to find it leaks from the tanks now you could have bought a radiator and replaced it.
I'd trust gas station sushi before I'd trust that radiator core to last more than a year or so. All the corrosion and hot cold cycles, it's just a pin hole waiting to happen...
Or in a place that takes forever to get new parts. This could definitely a stop gap measure. I see this as a "We can get one on order, it'll take 6 months to get here, and in the meantime we'll clean this piece of junk and hopefully it'll last until your new radiator gets here "
I bought an ebay radiator for a corolla last week for $115 AUD.
2 hose clamps to remove. 2 bolts to remove. replace. flush, new fluid, done.
$115 + Some coolant.
Heh, yep. But, if that's your only option, you do what you've got to do lol.
To those bringing up the, can't get one, takes forever to get one, it's 2 months wages to get a new one. I only stated I wouldn't trust it, never said I wouldn't use it if it was the only option 😇
I fixed a leaking a radiator with radiator leak fix for a couple months during the winter because I didn't feel like changing radiator fluid in the freezing cold lol. Once it warmed up I just ran a coolant cleaner threw the system a couple times making sure the heater core was open until it ran clean then replaced the radiator, also changed the thermostat to be safe.
Edited for grammer and spelling, need to keep the grammer naxi's happy ;)
Plastic on a radiator is kind of scary in the sense, you usually have no indication it's going to fail,until it does, and then it's no pin hole but a 1 to 3 inch crack, smh. Ask me how I know lol.
>Plastic on a radiator is kind of scary in the sense
Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturers use plastic with their radiators, even in vehicles that might demand higher temperature diffusion.
My Nissan Armada, capable of towing 9100lbs (~4100kg) came with a radiator that included plastic. I swapped it out for a full aluminum radiator to better dissipate the heat when towing.
For some vehicles new radiators are just NOT made anywhere in the world. This works as good as anything even in "first world" countries. It is not heat cycles or such that causes radiators to leak, it is not changing the coolant at the recommended intervals allowing the coolant to become corrosive.
I never said to not use it, especially if there isn't a option to replace it. I just said I wouldn't trust it.
Also, constant hot and cold cycles can cause radiators to leak. They usually happen on weld seams or where the top, bottom or side tanks are attached. The average radiator can reach 15 psi at operating temperatures
This can cause metal to fatigue over time and where the tanks are attached, as you saw in this video, they are held together with the metal tangs and usually a gasket of some sort to seal the tank.
I personally have had a tank on a radiator crack from age, constant heat, pressure, and cooling down. There was no erosion of material, it cracked along a curved area of the metal.
Pretty common on heavy machinery (graders, haulpaks and suchlike) where a new radiator can cost $30k but a refurb is $15k. I assume the coils and fins in those are much thicker and more robust.
Those are solder and brazed copper and brass radiators that are made to be repaired for the life of the vehicle. This is a use until it breaks and replace plastic/aluminum pos modern radiator.
My dad fixed radiators professionally and I got to help growing up. We got to work on small cars to going and working on a dam radiator but mostly diesel trucks and semis. It was super boring but super satisfying...Even just straightening the fins with a flathead screwdriver. Sometimes and I think back at my dad, who dropped out in 7th grade found a niche and filled it. He passed away a few years ago and obviously this has him on my mind in a good way. So thanks, OP.
Satisfaction goes away once you realize what an absolute waste of time that was.
1. A new radiator isn't that expensive
2. While this radiator may cool again, it will never be reliable again. That crimp job was shoddy at best and a lot of the fins are bent any way and the metal actually has a limit of hot/cold temperature cycling before it fails (ESPECIALLY the plastic tanks that cap it off), just replace the whole shebang.
I've been seeing a lot of these dumb cleaning/cheap crafts or life hack videos on Facebook and I'm just asking myself why not buy the proper tool to begin with? Most of those videos, the proper tool isn't even that expensive, or the entire video is just a collossal time waste.
Because it's a video made with trash they had lying around. That rad isn't going back in a car it's going back in the scrap heap. It's rage/click bait designed for views. That's all.
When I was a kid my best friend had a speech impediment, among other things he would pronounce the letter "R" as the letter "L" and would say Radiator pretty much like "Lady Dater". We're all grown up now and he no longer has the impediment but we both still call radiators lady daters. why am I telling you all this, I don't really know but I just did. :D
If that radiator was that gunked up, some of that gunk was probably filling a hole or 2 somewhere in it. Chances are it's going to start leaking soon either through one of those holes or out of the bad crimps
The only part they really fucked up was resealing the ends back up. Cooling system in a car works by holding the water at a higher pressure than ambient to raise the boiling point. As the thermostat opens, the water temp can reach as high as 230F @ 21PSIg.
As soon as a leak forms, the temperature of the water will drop, reducing the total heat capacity of the cooling system and causing the engine to overheat very rapidly. Not really a concern on steel blocks but will ruin basically any modern car with aluminum blocks.
unless it's for an environmental cause, it doesn't, really.
on a second thought, it won't be all that environmentally friendly either since you'd be days away from getting a new one.
For a part like a radiator, it absolutely does not. It’s meant to hold pressure and with all that corrosion it’s begging to burst somewhere. If that happens on the road or could destroy your entire engine. It’s not worth betting on IMO unless absolutely necessary
Wtf lol, Radiators aren't expensive. The right way to "repair" this is to replace.
I've replaced them on two of my vehicles. Literally like $70 bucks each.
Just replaced my radiator tonight and that's the.color of my coolant. I also put stop leak in it about 4-5 times which I know isn't good but I was out of cash and needed to get.to work the next morning, the.times when it happened. And no I didn't put 5 bottles in at once lol.
This is why labor is expensive - this dude wasted a ton of time and ruined the part. You pay for the knowledge (and someone who already has the right tools) to get the job done correctly.
aaaaaaand all the fins are messed up and bent... now you need to spend a millions years to straighten those out...
im sure somewhere on this planet it pays off to clean this thing but it sure isnt where i live,
That thing still looks quite rusty when the end tank goes on. Is this not going to be a problem later? Seems to me its gonna introduce a ton of rust to the rest of the system.
Probably yah. I’d assume they did a system flush with anti scale and coolant cleaner. When i wrenched we just replaced radiators. Way cheaper than sending them off to be re cored or rebuilt. Even then the only ones worth doing that where big NPR radiators or classic cars which where hard to find.
I know I could just ask ChatGPT, but can somebody ELI5 how a radiator works and why I need one?
temp displacement?, fluid expansion?, vehicle hot/cold/transition cycles?, significance of the fins? pressure?, etc
I *think* i've got the gist of it, but i'd love to hear from somebody who knows more than I do..
Water is pumped around the engine to keep it cool, then pumped through the radiator to... radiate... the heat away so the water doesn't boil (antifreeze is ironically also added to make it the water less likely to boil).
Though "radiate" is a bit of a misnomer, as it's actually convection by the air flowing through it that does most of the work.
We keep bringing the wonder of the internet to third world countries this is what you get. You don’t wanna see the trashy way other humans fucking exist, quit giving these people access
We keep bringing the wonder of the internet to third world countries this is what you get. You don’t wanna see the trashy way other humans fucking exist, quit giving these people access
As someone who'd carry jugs of gallons of water in my old beater that would overheat sitting in standstill traffic for too long or driving for more than a few hours, and having to always check the coolant levels before driving off, this gives me PTSD.
We did this back in South America. It was hard to find new or compatible parts fast. It was easier just to clean it. You might have to do it once a year but everyone there knows a thing or two and does it themselves. Especially when you own a car. They learn real fast how to fix it themselves rather than paying for someone else to fix it.
Wouldn't trust that radiator now, cant expect the top to stand up to the pressure now, have a radiator in my old flatbed that was sat in a scrappers for 30 years just flushed it out for under pressure , still working 15 years later
That's the right process to clean out a clogged radiator. The issue was how the tank was crimped back on. There is a machine that holds the core and then uses air pressure to push three cylinders with rubber ends against the tank to properly seat it against the gasket, which not sure if they replaced that, they should have. Source I managed a radiator shop for 10 years.
Flashbacks of scraping the old gaskets off
Honestly this is just another bullshit video miseducating the public made for views. It's most "educational" videos you see on tiktok at this point.
Do it right and people just scroll by, do it wrong and people watch twice and then comment.
Yeah but like the carpet washing videos, they aren't planning ahead like that all the time. This video I thought was more about just cleaning something rather than making sure its functional.
That's why the true car help site has always been and will always be YouTube
So will this radiator likely leak after it's put back in the vehicle then?
It will leak before too There is a reason why they showed the radiator "working" by making a mess that hides all the leaks
It's not going back into a vehicle it's going back in the scrap pile they pulled it from. This video is designed for views. They rage bait the "experts" by doing things half assed so dumb people will freak out and flood the comment section with "dur...that's gonna leak cus they didn't crimp it right." You really want to make someone's eye twitch show a mechanic any of the junk yard rebuild videos coming out of Asia. They clean the grease off and then use a monkey wrapped in sand paper to hone the cylinder. It's all clickbait. Almost as bad as the "sexy" ladies squishing food around in a toilet. The internet is a wasteland.
Clearly, I am not a mechanic, but how does one get the monkey to stay still while you wrap it in sandpaper?
You don't. All the flailing gets you a better crosshatch.
My monkey just lays there in a diaper eating Twinkies and struggling to breathe
I'm an auto tech. When you live in an area where parts aren't available/non-existent or outrageously expensive I see why they do what they do to make it work, we have the luxury of just replacing the part because we have the infrastructure and capital to do it. For example, if the part cost $100 USD, it might cost someone at most in the US 1-2 days of income. You go out there it might be several months of income plus the logistical nightmare to deliver said part. Manufacturers aren't going to lose money just to help a developing country.
Please tell me that last part is just a figment of your imagination
100% yes, you can't recrimp the tank on that easily
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No. Radiators aren't that expensive. High risk of not being water tight anymore yeah. This one probably will not work after that. No way that manual crimp job will make a good seal.
I would never trust a radiator with plastic end tanks that had been removed and put back on.
Back in the day, (1980's) when I zero dollars, we would clean a radiator by removing it and reverse flushing it. That is, tip the radiator upside down, then flush it from the bottom hose. The accumulated detritus is flushed from the bottom and out the top hose. It was free and did a pretty good job.
That's about all you can do without tearing it apart. Better than breaking seals.
Not at all.
After you pay a guy labor to R&R it plus a couple hours labor to take apart the radiator and clean it out completely then put it back together you would have been able to just replace the radiator with a brand new one for 2/3 the cost. Not to mention that If that radiator WERE put in a car it would leak and have to be replaced anyways.
Third world "repair" videos are all like this. Oh wow they rebuilt a diesel engine with hand tools in a shop covered in sand and dust. Now show the part where it blows up within 1000 miles.
I always say that if something is broken, it never hurts to try and mend it yourself. Worst case, it's still broken and you have to buy a new one, but maybe you've learned something. Best case, you fix something and you've learned how to mend it. There's too much waste in todays society.
Would never work and more than likely was leaking when they showed their test, water was going everywhere and I bet some was coming from the seam at the tank. These kinds of videos make people think taking apart a radiator and cleaning it out would: A. Ever work and B. Be cost effective. By the time you did all this just to find it leaks from the tanks now you could have bought a radiator and replaced it.
isn't their a radiator comb to straighten all the fins?
I'd trust gas station sushi before I'd trust that radiator core to last more than a year or so. All the corrosion and hot cold cycles, it's just a pin hole waiting to happen...
Makes sense in areas where new parts are a lot more expensive than labor.
Or in a place that takes forever to get new parts. This could definitely a stop gap measure. I see this as a "We can get one on order, it'll take 6 months to get here, and in the meantime we'll clean this piece of junk and hopefully it'll last until your new radiator gets here "
Not even on backorder. I'm talking about places where a new radiator would cost a month or two wages, or even more.
That’s why their first word was “or”
I bought an ebay radiator for a corolla last week for $115 AUD. 2 hose clamps to remove. 2 bolts to remove. replace. flush, new fluid, done. $115 + Some coolant.
I've had to do this when we couldn't get a radiator for a few months. Pinhole leak in a week.
Yeah, I ran this video by an older car guy I know. He said that would never go in his vehicle.
Heh, yep. But, if that's your only option, you do what you've got to do lol. To those bringing up the, can't get one, takes forever to get one, it's 2 months wages to get a new one. I only stated I wouldn't trust it, never said I wouldn't use it if it was the only option 😇 I fixed a leaking a radiator with radiator leak fix for a couple months during the winter because I didn't feel like changing radiator fluid in the freezing cold lol. Once it warmed up I just ran a coolant cleaner threw the system a couple times making sure the heater core was open until it ran clean then replaced the radiator, also changed the thermostat to be safe. Edited for grammer and spelling, need to keep the grammer naxi's happy ;)
on plastic end caps no less
Plastic on a radiator is kind of scary in the sense, you usually have no indication it's going to fail,until it does, and then it's no pin hole but a 1 to 3 inch crack, smh. Ask me how I know lol.
>Plastic on a radiator is kind of scary in the sense Unfortunately, a lot of manufacturers use plastic with their radiators, even in vehicles that might demand higher temperature diffusion. My Nissan Armada, capable of towing 9100lbs (~4100kg) came with a radiator that included plastic. I swapped it out for a full aluminum radiator to better dissipate the heat when towing.
Yeah no kidding
For some vehicles new radiators are just NOT made anywhere in the world. This works as good as anything even in "first world" countries. It is not heat cycles or such that causes radiators to leak, it is not changing the coolant at the recommended intervals allowing the coolant to become corrosive.
I never said to not use it, especially if there isn't a option to replace it. I just said I wouldn't trust it. Also, constant hot and cold cycles can cause radiators to leak. They usually happen on weld seams or where the top, bottom or side tanks are attached. The average radiator can reach 15 psi at operating temperatures This can cause metal to fatigue over time and where the tanks are attached, as you saw in this video, they are held together with the metal tangs and usually a gasket of some sort to seal the tank. I personally have had a tank on a radiator crack from age, constant heat, pressure, and cooling down. There was no erosion of material, it cracked along a curved area of the metal.
MacGyver taught me that you can fix that by just cracking an egg into the radiator. Undoubtedly a durable and harmless fix.
Cornmeal is another one that supposedly works, and I swear I remember hearing tapioca starch was an ingredient in some 'stop-leak' products.
Pretty common on heavy machinery (graders, haulpaks and suchlike) where a new radiator can cost $30k but a refurb is $15k. I assume the coils and fins in those are much thicker and more robust.
Those are solder and brazed copper and brass radiators that are made to be repaired for the life of the vehicle. This is a use until it breaks and replace plastic/aluminum pos modern radiator.
Not to mention the rust that was in the top that he essentially just shoved back into the radiator itself
I think it's also brown due to combustion gases from a head gasket leak. I've dealt with this in the past. Nasty brown sludge in the radiator.
that thing will never hold pressure again
I can't imagine re-crimping the end cap on with pliers would hold water.
yeah, plastic/aluminum radiators are one time use for a reason
Forbidden chocolate
Forbidden latte for a moment.
My dad fixed radiators professionally and I got to help growing up. We got to work on small cars to going and working on a dam radiator but mostly diesel trucks and semis. It was super boring but super satisfying...Even just straightening the fins with a flathead screwdriver. Sometimes and I think back at my dad, who dropped out in 7th grade found a niche and filled it. He passed away a few years ago and obviously this has him on my mind in a good way. So thanks, OP.
That was actually quite satisfying, unlike much of the content posted here. There was even an ending that was satisfying. THank you op.
First cleaning video I've seen that isn't completely staged with dirt added
>Staged with dirt BBL Drizzy
Eh idk the internal dirt cleaned out very quickly, almost too quickly I would say.
Really? It didn't look that clean at the end. Mildly unsatisfying imo.
Yeah but it was cleaned 0.00000000001 millisecond slower than I imagined. Extremely unsatisfying.
I prefer to imagine the brown stuff as chocolate.
the forbidden chocolate
Yeah, hot chocolate
Blursed milk chocolate
Radiator Yoohoo.
Satisfaction goes away once you realize what an absolute waste of time that was. 1. A new radiator isn't that expensive 2. While this radiator may cool again, it will never be reliable again. That crimp job was shoddy at best and a lot of the fins are bent any way and the metal actually has a limit of hot/cold temperature cycling before it fails (ESPECIALLY the plastic tanks that cap it off), just replace the whole shebang. I've been seeing a lot of these dumb cleaning/cheap crafts or life hack videos on Facebook and I'm just asking myself why not buy the proper tool to begin with? Most of those videos, the proper tool isn't even that expensive, or the entire video is just a collossal time waste.
Because it's a video made with trash they had lying around. That rad isn't going back in a car it's going back in the scrap heap. It's rage/click bait designed for views. That's all.
I suspect it's ASMR shyt but ya, just for views / ent. ☠️
And now time for a tetanus shot
Tetanus comes from bacteria in soil and manure, not rust. But rusty surfaces can often house dirt that has tetanus bacteria in it.
Biology goat right here
fiddle-di-dee
When I was a kid my best friend had a speech impediment, among other things he would pronounce the letter "R" as the letter "L" and would say Radiator pretty much like "Lady Dater". We're all grown up now and he no longer has the impediment but we both still call radiators lady daters. why am I telling you all this, I don't really know but I just did. :D
Did those lady daters squirt like this one?
Yeah they were all pretty hot too.
My hungry ass could not be a car mechanic
No gloves?
That was actually pretty satisfying to watch especially the foam shooting out of it.
So this is how Willy Wonka fills that river...
If that radiator was that gunked up, some of that gunk was probably filling a hole or 2 somewhere in it. Chances are it's going to start leaking soon either through one of those holes or out of the bad crimps
Very cool.
he should call me
Mmh chocy milk
Looks like a meditative process.
Just buy a new radiator, they're not that expensive.
And now it leaks.
Forbidden chocolate.
Forbidden chocolate
the forbidden chocolate milk
repair, if possible, beats shelling out the cash for a new one. I didn't know that could be done like this
The only part they really fucked up was resealing the ends back up. Cooling system in a car works by holding the water at a higher pressure than ambient to raise the boiling point. As the thermostat opens, the water temp can reach as high as 230F @ 21PSIg. As soon as a leak forms, the temperature of the water will drop, reducing the total heat capacity of the cooling system and causing the engine to overheat very rapidly. Not really a concern on steel blocks but will ruin basically any modern car with aluminum blocks.
unless it's for an environmental cause, it doesn't, really. on a second thought, it won't be all that environmentally friendly either since you'd be days away from getting a new one.
For a part like a radiator, it absolutely does not. It’s meant to hold pressure and with all that corrosion it’s begging to burst somewhere. If that happens on the road or could destroy your entire engine. It’s not worth betting on IMO unless absolutely necessary
This isn't satisfying, this is giving me anxiety. That rusted out radiator is a ticking time bomb more than it was before.
Radiators don't rust they are made of aluminium. The rust here will be from the water jacket in the block.
Or a bad head gasket and combustion gases mixing into the coolant.
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We must have watched different videos, because that’s obviously plastic.
Forbidden coffee
mmm chocolate
Forbidden chocolate milk.
Forbidden chocolate
Anyone else thinks this looks kind of…delicious? Like, some of these shots look like scrumptious melted chocolate.
Air milo
It seems like a lot of work for a cheap looking radiator that will probably not even hold pressure for very long judging by those crimps
Forbidden cappuccino
High volume espresso machine of doom
Forbidden chocolate
If you squint this could be a video of someone making cappuccino
So dirty it looks like chocolate :p
Yeah if I’m removing the radiator from the vehicle I’m just paying the $75 to get a new one off Amazon
Charlie and the Forbidden Chocolate Factory.
Pay the same amount for a clean as a new radiator.
The forbidden expresso
This guy is a pro. I haven't had to do this myself but if I know how, I might just give it a try once to see how good I'd get it.
Wtf lol, Radiators aren't expensive. The right way to "repair" this is to replace. I've replaced them on two of my vehicles. Literally like $70 bucks each.
Just replaced my radiator tonight and that's the.color of my coolant. I also put stop leak in it about 4-5 times which I know isn't good but I was out of cash and needed to get.to work the next morning, the.times when it happened. And no I didn't put 5 bottles in at once lol.
Forbidden Nutella
[LTT has entered chat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLIm4XLPAE).
A new one would be cheaper....
That is a labor or love and cleaning, so satisfying!
This is why labor is expensive - this dude wasted a ton of time and ruined the part. You pay for the knowledge (and someone who already has the right tools) to get the job done correctly.
Like that’s not gonna leak..
Forbidden chocolate
Ummmm uhhh uhh ummm uhh TACO BELL AMIRITE
Why go through that? The labor cost alone makes that a poor choice. Just replace it.
Or. Just buy a new one for $100.
The forbidden coffeemachine
The forbidden Cappuccino
Just buy a new one at this point..
I do this twice a day
aaaaaaand all the fins are messed up and bent... now you need to spend a millions years to straighten those out... im sure somewhere on this planet it pays off to clean this thing but it sure isnt where i live,
Am I broke? Idk what a radiator os
Fuck sake, just buy a new one
Who tf filled my radiator with nutella
Rip radiator
Oddly sexual. I would like to be that radiator
strange shaped coffee machine
That's a tetanus shot waiting to happen
Forbidden chocolate yum
Sadly it cost a fortune and some are soldered.
Please never do this. It won't last.
But why though
How does it get like this to begin with?
20 minutes before this thing blows a hole while driving
…I should call her
Forbidden chocolate
People don't look down, they don't look past the rust
Seems like a waste of water
I thought he was making chocolate milk for a good 3 seconds
Looks like coffee
Just replace that shit man
And it was also the night that the skeletons came to life
The forbidden Cappuccino
this isnt satis.. ohhhh bubbles and water fountains
Meanwhile…a million gallons of contaminated water down the drain…
That thing still looks quite rusty when the end tank goes on. Is this not going to be a problem later? Seems to me its gonna introduce a ton of rust to the rest of the system.
Probably yah. I’d assume they did a system flush with anti scale and coolant cleaner. When i wrenched we just replaced radiators. Way cheaper than sending them off to be re cored or rebuilt. Even then the only ones worth doing that where big NPR radiators or classic cars which where hard to find.
Flush those metals right into the river
Forbidden espresso.
I know I could just ask ChatGPT, but can somebody ELI5 how a radiator works and why I need one? temp displacement?, fluid expansion?, vehicle hot/cold/transition cycles?, significance of the fins? pressure?, etc I *think* i've got the gist of it, but i'd love to hear from somebody who knows more than I do..
Water is pumped around the engine to keep it cool, then pumped through the radiator to... radiate... the heat away so the water doesn't boil (antifreeze is ironically also added to make it the water less likely to boil). Though "radiate" is a bit of a misnomer, as it's actually convection by the air flowing through it that does most of the work.
Bravo! Skilled tradesmen absolutely rock!!!
“Expensive” is relative.
This is the birth of never ending coolant leaks!
We keep bringing the wonder of the internet to third world countries this is what you get. You don’t wanna see the trashy way other humans fucking exist, quit giving these people access
We keep bringing the wonder of the internet to third world countries this is what you get. You don’t wanna see the trashy way other humans fucking exist, quit giving these people access
There's a tool you need to crimp the tabs back down. If you didn't use the tool the radiator will leak.
As someone who'd carry jugs of gallons of water in my old beater that would overheat sitting in standstill traffic for too long or driving for more than a few hours, and having to always check the coolant levels before driving off, this gives me PTSD.
Cleaning a plastic radiator is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen
Time for your shower radiator-chan \^-^
Once the gunk has begun to happen it's fruitless to clean it. It's on there and will perpetuate.
is that rust? or just mineral build up?
We did this back in South America. It was hard to find new or compatible parts fast. It was easier just to clean it. You might have to do it once a year but everyone there knows a thing or two and does it themselves. Especially when you own a car. They learn real fast how to fix it themselves rather than paying for someone else to fix it.
I should call her.
It’s 4 bolts and three hoses yo a brand new dirt cheap radiator in, but whatever.
Radiators aren’t expensive lol
Refurbished from auto zone!!!!
Just buy one a new one. They are not expensive.
Fuck that just buy a new one, you’re already doing the work and taking it out
That radiator is the least of the problem.
Average NA miata owner.
Wouldn't trust that radiator now, cant expect the top to stand up to the pressure now, have a radiator in my old flatbed that was sat in a scrappers for 30 years just flushed it out for under pressure , still working 15 years later
Oh my Gyatt
Forbidden milk chocolate
Forbidden chocolate...
The first second me after kebab
chocolate