Plugged radiator help?


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Posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 21:04:45 :

I posted this question over on the M37 forum but as the Power Wagon and the M37 radiators are similar there might be good overlap.
I took 2 really good looking radiators to a local shop last week to have them checked out. The guy called today with the bad news. He says they are both plugged up. He said he puts the hose in the top, the radiator fills up and overflows the top and water trickles out the bottom. He says that the only way to fix them would be to rod them out, but you cant rod these radiators due to the lock seam prevents him from taking the tank off without cracking the header panel of the core. I know this is true, as I have removed tanks and the wrapped over edge just breaks off. If the header panels were available for the radiator, he could replace that, but he says they are not available. he also says acid will most likely burn through the core, or thin the metal that it will let go in short order.
So, any good home remedies for a plugged radiator? Flushing, vibration, mud eating worms with strings tied onto them to pull them out after all the muck is gone?
Thanks in advance,
Tim



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