ok so today i was coming home from my dads after a long day of workin on my chevy and lifting it 4 inches and putting a new tensioner on the ol cummins. well it wasnt sqeaking wich made me happier then you could ever imagine. about half way home at a red light i heard a small chirp. i thought awww man its slippin again. well i get home and loog dont find a thing. go inside eat a donut come out to get my clothes only to discover a nice sized puddle of coolant under my baby. well i jumped into action searching ever hose and suck and no to avail. so i stop search more nad then go to the top side to pump on the hose to build a tad bit of pressure. wel as soon as i did that i see it peeing for lack of a better word out of the back of my rad onto my tensioner and all over everything. well i was lost for words so i ran inside and got my moms keys and ran to wall mart and bought 2 bottles of bars leak, the heavy duty kind. i got home dumped that in and let it idle for a good 10 minutes, took it out for a ride and got on her and got up to the first bar of the coolant temp. got home and let her cool off and check it and had a drip every minute or so. then it stopped but im still not happy. of its that big of a hole that 2 bottles didnt seal it up then its gotta be something gnarly. so bottom line what do i do from here? how do i get my belt to not squeal and no joke,................... anybody got a good rad laying around? or where can i get one? how much am i lookin at (im 17 in high school, workin 30hrs a week at pep boys as an installer....i got a girlfriend, i aint rich)



any advice

nick

(feelings right now)

 

use your employee discount at pepboys. i just put a radiator in mine and a brand new one ran me like $190. take it to a rad shop and see if it is repairable. that will be lots cheaper.

 

If you can see where the leak is, plumber's two-part epoxy putty will fix it for good.

This stuff is also available in the glue section of any Walmart, parts-store, etc., under a dozen names, such as QUIK-STEEL.

It is in a stick form, in a plastic tube, about an inch diameter.

You cut off a chunk and work it up, like Play-Doh, when it starts warming up, you stick it where you want it.

This will give you time to shop for a new one, as the old one is probably rotten.

 

and as soon as you can, flush that Bars-Leak out of the system!!!

 

ditto
Products like that do more bad than good in my opinion.

 

Agreed, If you knew how small some of the passages are in the head gasket you wouldn't even consider using them. I know I wouldn't use it.

 

maybe look at ebay for a new radiator

brett

 

how can I get the belt not to squeal
I had oil get on my belt and and it started to squeal bad. Wash/scrub the belt with something like simple green and that should help. If that doesn't work might need a new belt..

 

could i use a second gen rad and intercooler? is there a difference between the N I/c and I/C rads?

 

Sell the girlfriend and buy a new radiator. Woops did I say that?

 

I have a 78 olds with a 350 rocket in it. The PO had poured a bunch of that sealer crap in it trying to stop a head gasket leak. When I pulled the heads the inside of the block was coated with a layer of rubbery skin. This insulated the block from the water causing problems.

I had the heads hot tanked to get rid of it and flushed the block many times. Would get large skin like pieces of it out with a chemical flush.

Radiator was clogged as well after that.

I will never use that stuff ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever and a few more ever again.

The only kind I will use in a pinch is the aluma-seal kind. It is flakes of low melting point aluminum or something in powder form that melts into and seals the leak.

Andy

 

I ran tons of BARS-LEAKS pellets through my old 6.9 International, half a million miles worth, with no adverse issues.


I had a minor leak in a six-cylinder Cherokee, at the Grand Canyon, dumped it a jar of BARS LEAK, and put a new radiator in it at Lubbock, Texas; it needed one five minutes after dumping the stuff in.

There is probably as much BARS LEAK in my old 350Chevy, as there is coolant.

Some engines can handle it, some can't.

 

Radiatorexpress.com is great. I have six chain parts stores within 2 miles of me and the cheapest was $50 over the delivered price for my Durango. It was delivered to my door in two days. The radiator was a good quality American made piece.

 

UH, YEA you said it ROY, The best teacher is THE HARD-WAY.
TOMMY