So my wife tells me she's had to add coolant the last couple of days to her rad. Good on her to notice!! PUlled the truck into the shop and removed this... Truck has never been hit and we've owned it for 15 years! Can't figure out how the rad got bent by this much??? Lucky I kept the rad from the truck I stole the LS out of for my Canso...so was a freebee exchange. But still wondering how this could happen??
I've seen a frozen rad look similar to that but I doubt that is the issue here. Otherwise I don't know I've seen that. Hope someone has some ideas here.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Truck has always had anti freeze and checked/refurbished over the last 15 years. Just can't figure out how this would happen? Tried...but can't push it back in by hand;so it's not week by any means and I know it has never been froze. Just has me puzzled?
Is there an opening right in front of that lower section of the rad that would allow snow to get packed into the fins? The snow then melts when parked while the rad is warm, then as it cools down the melted or partially melted snow freezes and and expands creating pressure between the fins? Over the years the fins start to open up, allowing more snow to pack in and more thaw/freeze cycles?
Possibly having snow rammed in there by driving into a snow bank?
My wife damaged our 2017 Acadia front valance by easing into a parking spot where the snow had been cleared and the front of the parking space still had a snow / ice wall that was below her line of vision and she stuck the nose right into hardened snow pack breaking the plastic valance. At minus 30, plastic is very brittle. The front of nose was jammed full of snow and I noticed this and asked who did this (thinking one of our children did it) onlyy for her to pipe up that she must have did this at work.
Just some theories.
-- Edited by 68 Grande on Monday 22nd of March 2021 07:43:44 AM
I was going to suggest corrosion, but usually aluminum corrosion is only a problem when it is in contact with a dissimilar metal (i.e. steel). On its own it typically just develops a skin of corrosion and stops. This is why aluminum rads usually have cores, fins and tanks all made from aluminum.
You guys are missing one point, he is on the Island and it never freezes there. Most of the time it is in the low 30s. We have another couple of weather reporters there who will back that up.
You guys are missing one point, he is on the Island and it never freezes there. Most of the time it is in the low 30s. We have another couple of weather reporters there who will back that up.
You guys are missing one point, he is on the Island and it never freezes there. Most of the time it is in the low 30s. We have another couple of weather reporters there who will back that up.
You guys are missing one point, he is on the Island and it never freezes there. Most of the time it is in the low 30s. We have another couple of weather reporters there who will back that up.
Have to agree Jerel. Most guys on the rock don't even winterize their RV!! Thinking old age or was there before we bought the truck. Funny the rad was leaking at the top where the tank is crimped on....not at the bottom!?
