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killernoodle · 05-26-2004, 08:57 AM

I think the radiator would be worse, considering how narrow the tubes are.

I'll bet if you clean out your radiator, get new tubes, clean up the base and sand off the loose crud on the bottom of the top, run new distilled + antifreeze and run it again you wont see any more problems for a while. I'll bet it was a slow degredation of the loop that caused this.

I had a block that looked all black and cruddy once, but it had been sitting in the water for about a year without cleaning and the radiator was old and probably cruddy when I put it in there.

EDIT: and this is why I always use plastic barbs on my alu parts, with the exception of my WW because I am not sure I have any barbs that fit it.

05-26-2004, 08:57 AM	#19
killernoodle Thermophile Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Charlotte, NC Posts: 1,014	I think the radiator would be worse, considering how narrow the tubes are. I'll bet if you clean out your radiator, get new tubes, clean up the base and sand off the loose crud on the bottom of the top, run new distilled + antifreeze and run it again you wont see any more problems for a while. I'll bet it was a slow degredation of the loop that caused this. I had a block that looked all black and cruddy once, but it had been sitting in the water for about a year without cleaning and the radiator was old and probably cruddy when I put it in there. EDIT: and this is why I always use plastic barbs on my alu parts, with the exception of my WW because I am not sure I have any barbs that fit it. __________________ I have a nice computer.