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03-26-2011, 09:37 AM
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Stripped brass fitting in radiator
Did the search but wondering if anyone had any new ideas about how to deal with a perfectly good radiator that leaks where the tranny cooling line enters the radiator?
Stripped threads on the upper cooling line. Kind of frustrating as I just started the engine for the first time after a complete rebuild. Just ran it long enough for initial break-in and this leak started. Engine runs great and I want to play with it but I don't want to spray tranny fluid all over the thing....so, I gotta let it sit until I get this fixed. I'm guessing I need to find an old school radiator shop.
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03-28-2011, 09:55 PM
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Greg, did you try retapping it to straighten out the threads? Not sure if a helicoil would work but someone might know. Or radiator shop.... they'll fix it up for ya.
Too bad you aren't up here, I know just the place and this guy is gooood. I'll stop by tomorrow and ask Dick what you can do to repair it on your own.
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03-29-2011, 12:05 PM
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When I screwed the nut in this time, it felt much better. I think I got a better seal and I think it allowed me to catch some threads that it wasn't reaching before. It tightened up pretty good but I didn't want to get carried away with it torquing it down. I'll run it this evening to see if it still leaks.
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03-30-2011, 10:38 AM
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Greg, add some teflon tape if you can. Should help seal it some more.
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Gary Get in, ShuT Up, Hang On! Member of the Baltimore Built Brotherhood MY GTO built 4th Week of March 1966 "Crusin' Is Not A Crime" Keep yer stick on the ice. |
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#5
03-30-2011, 12:15 PM
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Naw Gary, teflon tape on a flared fitting will fail when you least want it to. Murphy's Law.
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03-30-2011, 01:27 PM
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I've heard that teflon tape or any kind of sealant was a no-no on a flared fitting. Never understood it but I've heard it. I guess because the threads are not self tightening like a pipe thread?
Anyway, I ran it for a very short time yesterday and it seems fixed. I'll check it some more today.
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03-30-2011, 02:12 PM
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Ok you two.... it was just a thought.
 Charles, get back out there and work on the GTO. LOL
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Gary Get in, ShuT Up, Hang On! Member of the Baltimore Built Brotherhood MY GTO built 4th Week of March 1966 "Crusin' Is Not A Crime" Keep yer stick on the ice. |
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03-30-2011, 03:05 PM
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OK, OK.
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#9
03-30-2011, 09:06 PM
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I read this title real quick and thought that could not fit a striped bass in a radiator.
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#10
03-30-2011, 10:07 PM
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On most of the rads I have there are flared fittings that screws into a pipe fitting on the rad that the line fitting fits into.
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#11
03-30-2011, 10:32 PM
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AS Charlie Sheen might say, WINNING!
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#12
03-31-2011, 02:43 PM
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I'm thinking you probably can't.
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