Re: Is my plastic/aluminum radiator repa

[AUDIDUDI@delphi.com]

> This evening the top plastic pipe on 85' 5000s radiator
> snapped into half so the upper radiator hose came completely
> off and it lost alot of coolant. The engine luckily didn't
> overheated, it happened so suddenly at a stoplight, next
> thing I knew was a cloud of white smoke from underneath the
> hood and the low coolant warning light came on so I just pulled
> over into a parking lot.

Audi dealers sell a kit to fix this that includes a replacement nipple and a
tube of epoxy ... I keep one in my trunk as an emergency spare and believe I
paid approx. $10 for it.

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