igor Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 See fabrication foibles thread for pics of the bonnet repair and the tyres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I've had great success with that "one shot" stuff. Dump a tube of two of that into the rad, and do skids. By the time I sold my c20 Van it had 3 or 4 of them in it. (Bumped into new owners at a servo one day, they replaced the radiator. lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mof Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Is that the small clear plastic tubes with the loose coppery stuff in it? I put one of those in the Samurai coz it had a crack in the block (still does) A week later I had to get the radiator rodded, it had blocked up all but 6 tubes. It did stop the leak tho... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNAMUCK Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yeah, that's the shit. It's fucking Magic stuff. I took a tube to osn last year just in case the rad in the ced leaked. It didn't. (just boiled like a pot of spuds in a soup kitchen non stop both ways) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felixx Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 If a cop caught me driving that thing into town he'd need a second ticket book. It goes and stops and the lights all work but it's rusted to fuck and has tractor tyres on the front so it looks more than a bit dodgy. Radiators are removable 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathcollector Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 We sell a heap of Sealwell at work, the garages are always bunging it in someones car to get them home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Have rolled and crimmped cores before. Like a tube of toothpaste. Get some good 2 part epoxy too. Have used that over the crimp and never had a leak again my cars are thermosyphon mind 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taistorm Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Probably irrelevant but my mates 2.5 diesel turbo 99 bravo recently had a cracked head gasket. Flushed it out a few times, banged in some chemiweld - flushed it about another 2 times and 4 weeks later it's still running mint.Do not recommend but will suffice until he can afford to get another head swapped over in a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ta63-1uzze Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 just push it of a cliff and save the persons life your going to take driving around with tractor tires on the steering end of your car. you may not be the one that causes an accident but if you cant stop or steer properly then its your fault too in the eyes of the law .   bro seriously we have all done questionable car stuff in our lives but you sound as if you know better .  even snow tires would be less dangerous in my opinion  go to zebra/ pick a part / trade me scrap dealers/crashed damaged cars , and get some second hand tires and a radiator too , that is probably the cheapest way to do it . don't have to spend up large but you have allot of options . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingbrick Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Its a farm car 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cletus Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 +1 for chemiweld in a shitbox car you dont plan on keeping forever  i got another 6 years out of a civic of my grandpa's cause i couldnt be bothered fixing a BHG, had to put a bottle in every 3 years  mates VL went for 2 years with the same issue getting caned every day  it does bung stuff up though 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpr Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 pro tip; always take good care of you cooling system in your paddock car. we have driven my paddock bmw so hard that the wheels have literally fallen off. but the engine still runs like a dream thanks to the VL commie radiator  3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ta63-1uzze Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 oh thank fuck for that, retract previous statement (my bad) .  just jam any old radiator in it then. cable tie it in, or fence wire and that will be sweet. shit someone on here may even have something to donate .  a mazda demio or something similar. there are quite a few tinny radiators out there . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igor Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 ta63-1uzze, I take your point about the dodginess of tractor grip tyres for normal road use and there are a number of reasons why I would not make them my first choice including vibration and the excessive noise they make on chipseal. I did actually have some near new road tyres on this car but I put them on my wife's Laser to get it a warrant. Bonus, the rims fitted. I've got a spare radiator from another EN Civic but unfortunately it's a manual one so it doesn't have the trans cooler for the Hondamatic.  In this area when the snow comes it is not unknown to see farm utes fitted with tractor grip tyres in the main street. People around here mostly use their intelligence and drive to the conditions though so it doesn't become a real issue.  Taistorm, Cletus, good to know about the chemiweld. I suspect this car is also in the process of eating the head gasket so I will keep that in mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubastreet Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 I fixed my mate's radiator about five years ago with knead it and it's still holding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
governorsam Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Used to work in a radiator shop. Ground ginger is the tits. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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