Hello everybody,
I've got a pretty bad leak on the original brass rad on my 84, I thought I'd clean it up and see where exactly is coming from and in doing so have realized just how rotten it is, half the fins are blowing out with a little compressed air nothing left but paint holding dust together. Anyways it's got the odd ball 37"wide rad, there's two on rock auto, an aluminum one from Agility and a copper from Spectra. Does anybody have experience with either brand? The aluminum is a few hundred cheaper.
I called the local rad fixing guy and his advice was to run a lower pressure cap and just go but I plan to keep the truck for the next hundred years so would like a proper fix. He said the Spectra rads weren't built very strong and tend to last only a few years max.
I've got a pretty bad leak on the original brass rad on my 84, I thought I'd clean it up and see where exactly is coming from and in doing so have realized just how rotten it is, half the fins are blowing out with a little compressed air nothing left but paint holding dust together. Anyways it's got the odd ball 37"wide rad, there's two on rock auto, an aluminum one from Agility and a copper from Spectra. Does anybody have experience with either brand? The aluminum is a few hundred cheaper.
I called the local rad fixing guy and his advice was to run a lower pressure cap and just go but I plan to keep the truck for the next hundred years so would like a proper fix. He said the Spectra rads weren't built very strong and tend to last only a few years max.
