Need temporary fix asap. liquid seal?

[demarpaint]

Originally Posted By: JimPghPA
You could use a radiator for an automatic in a standard transmission car, if it fits. Just do not connect anything to the two fittings for the transmission cooler on the radiator.

The thick puty form of JB-Weld is called PC-7


+1 on the radiator.

PC7 at least the older stuff is the same thickness as the JB Weld Putty but it doesn't hold up to the heat as well. I have some here and checked, the JB Weld is better for heat, unless PC7 has been reformulated in the last 2 years. HTH

 

[Chris142]

Just get the Radiator with the AT cooler and forget it. Nothing will leak out of the cooler.

 

[SteveSRT8]

and if it really freaks you out get a couple of threaded pipe plugs for the holes!

 

[MarkM66]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Its one thing if driving around town and to/from work. If I were you, Id get a new radiator on order and rent a car for the trip. Otherwise you might be paying for a new engine.

A few hundred miles on I80 or the PA turnpike is far different. Fix the issue and do it right.


Yeah, no way would I consider driving that car for a long distance.

 

[cronk]

Many of the aftermarket radiator suppliers just make rads with the cooler for automatics, that way they only need to make one rad per model. If you have a manual, just cap off the cooler lines, or leave them unhooked. As Chris said above, nothing will leak out.

 

[fdcg27]

There is no way on this earth I would drive a car from anywhere in OH to NYC with a known bad radiator.
It may be that some Rube Goldberg patch job will work for a while, and I might drive around town that way while waiting for a new rad to show up.
There is no way I would trust such a repair on a road trip.
Also, if the plastic tank failed in one spot, who's to say it won't soon fail in another?
Imagine the fun of being stuck by the side of the PA Turnpike, while the best you can hope for is a real expensive rad replacement by someone you know neither personally nor by reputation, and the worst being a toasted engine.
I'd either postpone my trip, rent a car, fly, or take Amtrak.

 

[onion]

Agreed. Use the auto radiator. The fittings will probably have plastic caps in them. Just leave the caps in there and fugettaboutit.

 

[FL_Rob]

You could always use the trans cooler option as an engine oil cooler ,too.

 

[morris]

to: Popinski copper? for cooler lines? i hope not. the car makers that know how to build a car use break line tubing, allso for fuel lines, ( on older cars.) copper WILL break !!!

 

[Chris142]

Originally Posted By: FL_Rob
You could always use the trans cooler option as an engine oil cooler ,too.
It's way too small for that but would work as a PS cooler.