Re: Rad repair

[Terry Dyke <twdyke@xxxxxxxx>]

Don I was a radiator repair man for over 25 years and I would change shops 
if I were you. Your guy is just patching your radiator and not rebuilding 
it. I saw this all the time. If you pull the tank off and clean the seam out 
and retin the parts it will last for years. We had a trick to help on the 
fat top tanks. Have your radiator man put a baffel under the tank hooked 
into the seams of the header and then install the tank. The baffel does not 
need to be very long say 4 to 6 inches. Also the stock tank should have a 
divertor inside the tank where the hose connection goes into the tank. 
Sometimes some idiot will take it out and not re-install  it. Makes the tank 
alot weaker.  I think your guy is just patching the seam from the outside 
only so there is no strength to the solder. The tightness of the seam 
locking together is where the strength is not the solder. You have to get 
the solder all the way threw the locked seam. I would not try to reset the 
tank on your own. Ter409 


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