Radiator Problem -- Can it be patched???

[Kneale Brownson]

If you're talking about a crack in the neck of the radiator, and not in the
body of the endcap, I repaired one where the neck had broken off by
epoxying in a piece of copper pipe that had an OD almost perfectly matching
the ID of the neck.  I soldered a ring of copper wire around the outboard
end of the copper pipe to serve as a "barb" to help retain the hose/clamp.
I drove the car maybe six months that way before I had acquired a complete
new cooling system.

At 06:25 PM 3/12/2005 -0700, eric at xmission.com wrote:
>Today I flushed the cooling system on my wife's Cabriolet. After refilling the
>coolant, I discovered that the radiator has a crack where the upper radiator
>hose attaches. I've done some research and it seems a new radiator will cost
>around $320. I've also read that people have had pretty good success fixing
>similar problems using something called JB Weld.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with JB Weld? Is it worth trying to patch it
>or should I just buy the new radiator?
>
>I'm assuming that if I'm going to pull the radiator and replace it, I should
>also go ahead and the the TB at the same time.
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