Radiator woes

[Tony Hoffman]

I see two possibilities. Assuming you have one with plastic end tanks, you
could thread a piece of pipe or tube into the broken section. BTDT on an
expansion tank for a friend. It was done in a pinch intended to be replaced.
He drove with it that way for at least five years.

Possibility two, what the others have suggested, and external cooler and
manual radiator. Just out of curiosity, what side do the lines run into, is
it by the hoses, or on the opposite side?

I have one on an 84 non-turbo automatic parts car, but it's 450 miles away
from me in Oklahoma :(

Tony

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Richard van der Hoff <
quattro at rvanderhoff.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> You may recall I'm working on a 1984 Audi 200 turbo. For the record, the
> idea is to drive it to Romania on a BABE-style banger rally in a month's
> time...
>
> Anyway, the radiator has suffered the snapped-off-top-hose-connector
> disaster.
>
> A bit of googling and checking the archives suggests:
>  - any sort of home-made repair is likely to last about 5 minutes
>  - Audi made a repair kit which would last about 2 minutes longer than the
> home-made version
>  - The general wisdom is to replace the radiator.
>
> Not thrilled at throwing yet more money at this project, but fine, a
> replacement seems the best bet. Except... I can't find one.
>
> The particular problem is that the OEM radiator has an oil cooler in the
> bottom for the auto trans.
>
> Etka suggests this was present on "models with towing capability". It also
> seems to suggest that it was superceded by a radiator without the oil
> cooler... So one option seems to be to block off the lines to the
> transmission, replace with a normal radiator, and hope it lasts to Romania.
>
> Otherwise I could try to repair the original, or try harder to source a
> replacement.
>
> Any experience or suggestions from the list?
>
> Thanks!
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