Coolant Reservoir bottom neck broken

[Peter Golledge]

Scott Miller wrote:
> 
> I had enough neck left to slide the clamp up when the infamous radiator neck
> broke, but not this time.  The neck on the bottom of the coolant reservoir
> broke off flush with the reservoir.  There's a stainless sleeve in the
> broken end. It stuck out past the end of the plastic stump about 1/4 inch.
> If it had been fully in the neck it would've prevented this break.  I've
> shoved it back in and a little more, so it will greatly help gluing the
> thing back together, and strengthen the joint.  I'm planning to use
> superglue, and two-step epoxy around the joint.  Any BTDT?

I did a similar fix as a temporary until my new reservoir arrived via
2-day fedex from TPC.  It was beginning to leak on the second day....
and just made it.

I recommend a new unit from one of the many fine suppliers on the
audifans www site, not worth the risk.  You might also like to
check the after-run pump, these seem to fail real soon after the
coolant tank. :-)

Cheers
-- 
Peter Golledge