Tips on new radiator

[willycarson]

Hi all,

The radiator in my 1985 1.9 petrol T25 has just gone. Can anyone recommend where to get a replacement?

Cheers

Will

[itchyfeet]

Wanted section
Euro car parts and car parts 4 less were doing them for about £30 lots of people got them so got to be plenty around

[willycarson]

Thanks.

[California Dreamin]

£129.60 Now......

I would sell mine however it would definitely be at a profit....you could say that everyone had there chance to bag a bargain and why shouldn't those that 'speculated' now accumulate.....

Martin

[rob1927]

I bought a new rad last year made by a company in Denmark called Nissens, i paid around 140 Euros for it, it looked like a quality well built rad apart from the bleed screw was plastic with a slotted head for a screwdriver, of course its impossible to get a screwdriver in there when the rad is in situ, the result was i ended up using a pair of grips to bleed the van, and subsequently broke the screw head off, didn't hammer it either, only enough pressure to seal the rad and it broke!

I tried using a metal bolt with the same sized thread but it wasn't having it, wouldn't seal.

The rad is sat in the garden now, i had an idea of putting a metal threaded barrel in the screw hole and fixing it in place with arraldite or something like, do you think this would cope with the temps of the rad? Or would i be wasting my time?

Appolgies for hijacking thread, i thought the nissens rad was worth a mention.

[itchyfeet]

I tried using a metal bolt with the same sized thread but it wasn't having it, wouldn't seal.

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Did you use a sealing washer?

[itchyfeet]

£129.60 Now......

I would sell mine however it would definitely be at a profit....you could say that everyone had there chance to bag a bargain and why shouldn't those that 'speculated' now accumulate.....

Martin

Go on then give the chap a price, nobodys going to blame you for making a profit

[rob1927]

Yes i used a very small o ring, it was the plastic thread in the rad that gave up against the new metal bolt, it just kept turning and turning.

[itchyfeet]

Perhaps you dont know your own strength
not sure if its possible but id be looking to drill out and go up a size, iirc its m8 now ( best check that) so tap m10
always possible you will ruin it but its no use now

i wonder if a helicol would work in plastic

should have returned it when you discovered the problem with the screw slot
sale of goods act, not fit for purpose,.. E D I T thats a uk thing, i see you are in Finland maybe you dont have that law?

an o ring is not a sealing washer, needs to be retained in a channel to seal, used with a bolt it will just open out

[California Dreamin]

£129.60 Now......

I would sell mine however it would definitely be at a profit....you could say that everyone had there chance to bag a bargain and why shouldn't those that 'speculated' now accumulate.....

Martin

Go on then give the chap a price, nobodys going to blame you for making a profit

I've decided to keep mine as a spare....post is very expensive.
However...if there is someone else who has one spare and doesn't mind parting with it....I reckon he would pay £80 posted.

Martin

[rob1927]

I think i'm gonna bite the bullet and shell out for a new one, i'm not sure of the sales of goods act here in Finland, plus i've lost the receipt

Could you recommend a good rad manufacturer for these vans? At least a rad that comes with a metal bolton for bleeding, would bher be any good?

[California Dreamin]

Behr are about as good as it gets mate....original manufacture supplier, excellent quality.

Martin

[rob1927]

Thanks Martin, i'll see if i can source a new bher here in Finland, i'm using the old one at the mo which has a tiny intermittent leak at the bottom corner.

The van runs a tad hot on not so steep inclines(i'd imagine on some proper UK hills the gauge would continue to rise) and then the gauge returns to covering the right hand side of the LED

Would i be right in saying that the when the cooling system is cooling down the liquid contracts and as it contracts it will take in air through small leak hole? Thus causing the running slightly hot on inclines scenario.

Cheers,

Rob.

[Eloise]

Anybody know where I can buy one of those plastic bleed screws from as mine has just snapped off?

Cheers Neil.

[R0B]