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Radiator overflow tube broke off

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Rick Green

12-12-2001 15:30:19




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The radiator on my Ford 600 seems otherwise to be fine but the thin overflow tube that attaches to the neck of the radiator has broken off. Does anyone know how to fix it?




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Chicken George

12-23-2001 19:40:27




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 Re: Radiator overflow tube broke off in reply to Rick Green, 12-12-2001 15:30:19  
I would definately solder it on. Do not use 100% lead, use common acid core solder Now to make acid to clean up ANYTHING you want to solder, like the radiator shops do.
#1.a little is better than alot. Take a capful or two of muratic acid the kind you use to clean brick. (Hardware store item)put it in a small GLASS jar like baby food comes in. Get an old ZINC jar lid, Attic, or flea markett and cut the lid with tin snips into small slivers, just a few will do, and put them in the acid. They will "boil"
(dissolve). Keep adding slivers of zinc lid till they no longer dissolve. PRESTO! add an acid brush and you have PROFFESIONAL soldering acid!And it does work better than ANY store bought stuff. This is an old plummer/tinsmith trick

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Phil

12-17-2001 07:05:15




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 Re: Radiator overflow tube broke off in reply to Rick Green, 12-12-2001 15:30:19  
I've used regular solder too to repair my JD and the overflow was on top near cap. Clean the area very well; use steel wool, file, scraper tools and something that I find works better than all the rest is a small stainless steel wire brush bought in a 5 pack for something like 7 bucks from Grainger (off the shelf). These small brushes get in the nooks where steel wool might not. Gets things real shiny. Oh yea, consider using lead sticks from a local sheetmetal place and good acid flux. Lead melts at a lower temp.

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JK

12-16-2001 05:50:19




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 Re: Radiator overflow tube broke off in reply to Rick Green, 12-12-2001 15:30:19  
Rick,
You can sandblast the area around where you need to attach it as well as a couple of spots to hold it in position alon the shroud, then clean with acetone or laquer thinner & use JB-Weld to attach a new one without danger of causing a leak from your attempt to fix it.
John



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Joe (Wa)

12-12-2001 22:28:35




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 Re: Radiator overflow tube broke off in reply to Rick Green, 12-12-2001 15:30:19  
Rick, I have soldered in a piece of soft drawn 1/4" copper tubing as replacement. Put a rag in the neck and file off any protrusion that interferes with cap. Careful does it. Joe



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