Topic: radiator flush

[bandj524]

Well my cooling system needed some attention so I flushed it with prestone radiator flush then back flushed it with a back flush kit and now have discovered a couple of very small pin holes in the radiator. I am looking at radiator stop leak products and was wondering how long I get by with stop leak for until I get a new radiator in it (a week or two). And which product would anyone here recommend. Like I said it would be at most a couple of weeks before the new radiator comes in. Would the stop leak last that long on very very small leaks?

[sharpxmen]

Well my cooling system needed some attention so I flushed it with prestone radiator flush then back flushed it with a back flush kit and now have discovered a couple of very small pin holes in the radiator. I am looking at radiator stop leak products and was wondering how long I get by with stop leak for until I get a new radiator in it (a week or two). And which product would anyone here recommend. Like I said it would be at most a couple of weeks before the new radiator comes in. Would the stop leak last that long on very very small leaks?

do not use that crap - seriously, you'll have a livetime of problems after

I bought a brand new aluminum radiator with welded aluminum tanks, 2 row (as opposed to 1 row for the stock one) for $125 shipped off ebay. I recommend you do the same. You can also find oem ones for around $70

[Jeffy]

You can braze the holes closes if you can get to them but otherwise, I would recommend not putting anything into the system as it will gum up everything else and you'll more then likely have other issues down the road because of it.  Water pumps don't really like that sort of thing.

[bandj524]

thats what I thought so off to the bone yard I went and found an almost new condition radiator for 35.00 now its back on the road.