Needed urgently ,radiator for 1994 jeep cherokee
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People seem to flap about a radiator when it springs a leak. Usually they think that nothing short of a replacement / re-built unit will do.
However, I can cite two examples of an easily repaired radiator...
The first is on a Reliant Rialto (don't ask) and the second on an almost brand new 1,000cc bike I bought for racing use.
The bike example: bought brand new, but wanted to do 500 or so miles on the road first to run it in before I converted it to race with.
With only a few hundred miles on the clock, as I followed a mate on another bike down a road, we both overtook a car which involved crossing over the white dotted line in the road. Sadly, the centre of this road had lots of stones and gravel on it - and my mate's bike threw up lots of these stones in front of me, and two of them put two separate holes in my rad.
With time as a constraint, I removed the rad, and plugged the holes with a huge blob of 'Chemical Metal.'
Those repairs lasted and gave me no problems at all after 3 season's worth of very hard use, racing around loads of different tracks in the UK.
For what it's worth, the previously mentioned Reliant rad also held with a similar repair.
So...drop the rad out, clean up the metal around the holes with some Scotchbrite or similar, and then blob a big lump of Chemical Metal onto the hole.
I guarantee it will be fine...
However, I can cite two examples of an easily repaired radiator...
The first is on a Reliant Rialto (don't ask) and the second on an almost brand new 1,000cc bike I bought for racing use.
The bike example: bought brand new, but wanted to do 500 or so miles on the road first to run it in before I converted it to race with.
With only a few hundred miles on the clock, as I followed a mate on another bike down a road, we both overtook a car which involved crossing over the white dotted line in the road. Sadly, the centre of this road had lots of stones and gravel on it - and my mate's bike threw up lots of these stones in front of me, and two of them put two separate holes in my rad.
With time as a constraint, I removed the rad, and plugged the holes with a huge blob of 'Chemical Metal.'
Those repairs lasted and gave me no problems at all after 3 season's worth of very hard use, racing around loads of different tracks in the UK.
For what it's worth, the previously mentioned Reliant rad also held with a similar repair.
So...drop the rad out, clean up the metal around the holes with some Scotchbrite or similar, and then blob a big lump of Chemical Metal onto the hole.
I guarantee it will be fine...
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