Plastic Radiator Repair Question and Story (Medium Long)

[Efraim]

Mine broke off about 5-6 months ago. I placed and tightened the hose clamp
on remaining part of the tube and so far it didn't move at all.
Efraim
'88 5KCDTQ  322K km (200K mi) , 1.8 Bar
'90 90 99K km (62K mi)
Vancouver, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Berrevoets" <pjberr at home.com>
To: "'Christopher Ritchie'" <critchie1 at hotmail.com>; "1 Quattro List
(E-mail)" <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: October 2, 2000 12:32 AM
Subject: RE: Plastic Radiator Repair Question and Story (Medium Long)


> Mine broke off three months ago - quite irritating to say the least but
it's
> been on for at least 6000 km no problem.  In fact I just did a run to new
> york city and back 1780km in 27 hours (stopped in for some business). I
had
> forgotten it broke until I just read your post.
>
> Peter
> 1990 200TQ
>
>
> > >snip
> > >I guess I should be grateful that the car breaks when and
> > >where it does.
> > >But I am getting sick of constantly working on the thing.
> > >
> > >All this leads to a question.  Isn't there a fix for broken radiator
> > >outlets?  Something like epoxying a neck in the remaining
> > >stub?  Anybody
> > >ever do this?  Anybody ever ride around for any length of
> > >time with the hose
> > >attached only to a 1 inch neck.  (I want to get the radiator
> > >pressure tested
> > >before I go to all the trouble of replacing it.)
>
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