Started my truck on site the other day to come home and within a minute there's a puddle of coolant on the floor, rad leaking on the drivers side crimped edge, luckily it stops as it gets warm so still able to use the truck, I've been looking for a radiator and ouch !

 

Several options

Rock is  $422 to my door for a standard rad with crimped tanks, guess it's chinese this is for a purchase price of just over $100

Mishimoto on ebag $1151 to my door, no crimped tanks and MIUSA, purchase price is $750

 

Other option is I do have a new old stock Northern Radiator ally rad with the inlet/outlet on the correct sides but no trans cooler, would need to make mounts and weld them to the rad to use this, it is IIRC 19 or 22 x31, 3 core, I do have a large seperate trans cooler with electric fans that would work.

 

I'm leaning towards the Mishimoto as I don't trust chinese stuff and don't really have time to mess around figuring out the Northern

No option of buying here, Mishimoto have a UK outlet but don't stock and will not stock the 1298 rad

Is the Mishi worth the $$

Getting any Vaccine has a known trade off, that is vaccines weaken your immune systems ability to fight off other types of disease. That's the price you pay, so I wouldn't continue getting more jabs. Also the PCR test has a rather low accuracy rating esp. with doctors that have done research on the original development of the PCR test conclude that it is 'unreliable'. Another interesting finding is that most Americans are vitamin D deficient with one heart surgeon having a 53 % greater success rate treating heart patients in hospitals with vitamin D treatments. in their IV.

 

I bought some vitamin D yesterday and now refuse sun tan lotion.

Edited January 8, 20223 yr by JAG1

8 hours ago, JAG1 said:

now refuse sun tan lotion.

There's sunshine in west Oregon?

13 minutes ago, IBMobile said:

There's sunshine in west Oregon?

We had 20 minutes of it last Monday. However, I am very thankful that our drought is over, at least in the Northwest. How about where your at Dan, is the Colorado flowing well again?

7 minutes ago, JAG1 said:

Dan, is the Colorado flowing well again?

Snowpack is 141% above normal but CA is still in a drought, and they keep building houses. 

Slight change of subject, I finally fitted the new radiator today in pouring rain as it really started to leak yesterday,  good job I'd got hoses as the bottom hose was past it, no holes in either so in the bed box as spares.

Also noticed the intercooler hoses are a little soft so going to get a set.

Some corrosion evident in the cooling system, thermostat housing and bottom hose outlet on the block was a bit crusty, this must have occurred before me as I always use Cat ELC premix coolant, I'll run it for a few months and then send a sample off for analysis

 

18 hours ago, wil440 said:

Slight change of subject, I finally fitted the new radiator today in pouring rain

 

Rather rude to change the subject like that.  What's up with that?  Oh, that's right, the subject is Radiator Leak.  

 

Good to hear you got your radiator in.

 

- John

Edited January 9, 20223 yr by Tractorman

7 minutes ago, Tractorman said:

 

Rather rude to change the subject like.  What's up with that?  Oh, that's right, the subject is Radiator Leak.  

 

Good to hear you got your radiator in.

 

- John

We all was just waiting for the radiator to come in.

8 hours ago, JAG1 said:

We all was just waiting for the radiator to come in.

 It arrived inbetween xmas and new year but because of Covid I wasn't well enough to fit it.

 

One good thing about this forum is thread highjacks/derails whatever you want to call it aren't treated like you just dropped off of planet Zog, I used to be a member of a Mopar forum here and it had mods keeping threads on track....... Like the Gestapo  err boring 

Did about 20 miles yesterday and the truck definitely runs cooler with the new radiator, there is a hill that I have to drive quite regular that's maybe 2 miles from home, not a huge grade but maybe 1/2 mile long, temp was 186F at the top versus 190F with the old radiator, temp still gets to 190 as that's what the thermostat is but it does take longer, towing tomorrow so we'll see what the temp is again on a regular route so I know before the truck would be 190F or a tad over.

I couldn't flush the cooling system as all our outside taps are frozen as are hose pipes which are like iron bars, I'll give it a good flush using Caterpillar cooling system cleaner once temps rise a bit

One thing I did notice is the old rad weighs a ton

23 hours ago, wil440 said:

One thing I did notice is the old rad weighs a ton

Any scale blooms around the core tubes of the old radiator?

Not as I could see through the neck but I'll bet there is scale in the rad, I'll have a better look when I get time, as I said I always use Cat ELC premix so for the last 20k or so (since I've had the truck) that would have stopped corrosion and scale and I have a gallon of Cat cooling system flush so it will get some of that when the weather is a bit warmer