Coolant irony is my nights highlight.

Ricel

Ricel

Wheeling
Founding Member
Location
Rhode Island
Today i get out of work and start pulling out of the parkinglot to smell burning wood...

The island right before the highway was smoking, so being me, i threw on my flashers, blocked some traffic, and walked up to put it out before anything bad happens. Well seemed someone threw a ciggarette on the brand new mulch. Started putting the charred mess out with my boot, when one of the charred spots caught fire. (oh boy!) stompped that out and then realized i had some coolant in the trunk. Got that, and smoldered the burnned mulch. Day saved.

5 hours later, after dinner at the rents, convo was struck up with Dani, Dave and a couple other guys on FB about how she needs a new radiator and the bennifits on the SC upgrade.

Driving home, coolant smoke erupted from engine bay. Come to find out that on top if the top port on my Rad. Snapped, poping my hose off and emptying half my coolant, i now didnt have any spare to top it off!!!!

Ended up getting enough of the hose on there and then finding some random guy at 12am with a gallon of water to limp home.

Not exactly how i wanted to do it, but new radiator!
 
luv2mud

luv2mud

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Marietta, Ohio
Your welcome and sorry Im no help on the radiator. Im overheating as well. Mainly when I pull my trailer. Had a small leak and fixed it but it didnt help.

Sent from The Big Muskie
 
Big_THanks

Big_THanks

Wheeling
Founding Member
Location
Chattanooga
luv2mud said:
Your welcome and sorry Im no help on the radiator. Im overheating as well. Mainly when I pull my trailer. Had a small leak and fixed it but it didnt help.

Sent from The Big Muskie
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Check your bypass hose it kind of under the distributor. This is where my mysterious leak/ over heat issue was.
 
luv2mud

luv2mud

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Marietta, Ohio
Thanks! The Hubby will be home this weekend. Ill have him check it out! Im getting ready for a road trip so everything needs fixed. :)

Sent from The Big Muskie
 
NMTerras

NMTerras

Suspension Lift
Location
New Mexico
Ricel said:
Today i get out of work and start pulling out of the parkinglot to smell burning wood...

The island right before the highway was smoking, so being me, i threw on my flashers, blocked some traffic, and walked up to put it out before anything bad happens. Well seemed someone threw a ciggarette on the brand new mulch. Started putting the charred mess out with my boot, when one of the charred spots caught fire. (oh boy!) stompped that out and then realized i had some coolant in the trunk. Got that, and smoldered the burnned mulch. Day saved.

5 hours later, after dinner at the rents, convo was struck up with Dani, Dave and a couple other guys on FB about how she needs a new radiator and the bennifits on the SC upgrade.

Driving home, coolant smoke erupted from engine bay. Come to find out that on top if the top port on my Rad. Snapped, poping my hose off and emptying half my coolant, i now didnt have any spare to top it off!!!!

Ended up getting enough of the hose on there and then finding some random guy at 12am with a gallon of water to limp home.

Not exactly how i wanted to do it, but new radiator!
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This is exactly what happened to me, prompting the swap to the SC radiator. Zero problems since. The advantage to the swap to the bigger rad is that you eliminate an achilles heel of the early gen 1s - that paper thin radiator barely kept up to begin with, then as it ages and gets buildup, it quickly becomes inadequate. I blew two hoses before I exploded the inlet, since I replaced with a larger volume SC rad, zero problems, the temp needle never budges, ever, under any condition...
 
J Everett

J Everett

Suspension Lift
Founding Member
Location
Houma, LA
Yup, the dual core has more heat capacity, and therefore more cooling ability, so it can absorb a lot more heat when your engine is really working hard before the whole systems starts to show a strain. Your thermostat should keep everything between 180 and 210 degrees, but with the bigger radiator, it's gonna take a lot more strain to move past that 180 area. For the difference in price, there's really no advantage to not going with the S/C dual core rad.
 
AnthonyS

AnthonyS

Test Drive
Founding Member
Location
West Babylon, NY
I had the same thing happen about 2 weeks ago. On my way to work, my X overheated. Not to the point of breakdown, but I turned on the heater blower and limped into the pk lot at work. I checked it out later and found out the TOP pipe (return or supply) on the Rad cracked spewing coolant all over the engine.

Replaced the Rad for $120.00 plus installation time.
 
Ricel

Ricel

Wheeling
Founding Member
Location
Rhode Island
So, a week later, all is right with the world.

Like you guys said, needle didn't budge. Even in the 94* heat war we just had sitting in stop and go traffic. Impressive on all standards.
Makes you wonder why thy just didn't drop these in all of them. I mean they prob would have saved money only manufacturing one radiator instead of two.
 
Cameron23

Cameron23

Skid Plates
Founding Member
Location
Kansas
Ricel said:
Today i get out of work and start pulling out of the parkinglot to smell burning wood...

The island right before the highway was smoking, so being me, i threw on my flashers, blocked some traffic, and walked up to put it out before anything bad happens. Well seemed someone threw a ciggarette on the brand new mulch. Started putting the charred mess out with my boot, when one of the charred spots caught fire. (oh boy!) stompped that out and then realized i had some coolant in the trunk. Got that, and smoldered the burnned mulch. Day saved.

5 hours later, after dinner at the rents, convo was struck up with Dani, Dave and a couple other guys on FB about how she needs a new radiator and the bennifits on the SC upgrade.

Driving home, coolant smoke erupted from engine bay. Come to find out that on top if the top port on my Rad. Snapped, poping my hose off and emptying half my coolant, i now didnt have any spare to top it off!!!!

Ended up getting enough of the hose on there and then finding some random guy at 12am with a gallon of water to limp home.

Not exactly how i wanted to do it, but new radiator!
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I just saw this same thing happen yesterday with the new mulch and a cigarette from a landscaper


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NismoFire

NismoFire

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Smyrna, TN
Stupid question, but I have to ask...do the SC rads come with new brackets? Mine are about corroded through and through.
 
Ricel

Ricel

Wheeling
Founding Member
Location
Rhode Island
Brackets being the top pieces? If so then no. I picked them up for not too much at the stealership. Now the radiator support bracket, thats another story. Might have to build a new one my self soon.
 
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