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Urgent Help Needed!!
Ok, Ive spent the last couple days looking for the ATF fitting that screws on the bottom of my radiator. I bought new ATF hoses cause they were leaking, and when I checked the fittings to make sure they were tight, one of the nuts cracked into two pieces. My mechanic tried to do a quick solder job with a home blow torch kit, and it worked pretty well, except he got the solder all in the threads, so it wont work. I spoke to young Tom and thought he had one off of a blown radiator hes got, but he says his is different, and OT says the same thing. I dont get it, I cant be the only person who has this type radiator in their SVX. It does have a silver made in China sticker on the top of the radiator. Previous owner replaced it two years ago. I went to a Subaru salvage yard, and they have nothing, just a used radiator, and also went to a local reputable radiator repair shop and they have nothing either. Im attaching some photos of what my fitting looks like. It has a hex nut with an inch long copper tube with a flange that screws on to a thread and another hex nut thats mounted to the radiator. All I need is this one flange and or nut. Im thinking maybe I could go to Home Depot and buy a new hex nut and it should work. I want to get this done tomorrow so I can drop my car off to OT by Thursday. OK, look at the photos and see what Im talking about.
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I may not be getting what you are talking about , but I am going to assume what you are looking for is a fitting with npt threads which you should find at home depot.
If you are not going on a long drive can't you just bypass the radiator until OT gets it and could fix it for you?
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Im 410 miles away from OT, so I dont want to risk it.
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so you can't get a tap to clean the threads out to make the soldered one fit?
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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sounds like a quick fix...if the problem is that u cant get a nut on because of threads bulked with solder.
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I was going to do that, but my mechanic thinks it will leak or even break and not to risk it driving it that far. I'll just go to home depot in the morning. Yourconfused, do you have the same setup on your radiator. I wasnt aware that there are different type radiators that use different style fittings. This is so
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I have a silla rad, and my jack is currently leaking so I can't lift my car, but I will go look w/ a flashlight. my car is lowered a couple of inches so I may not fit under it to see anything.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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ok just looked and my rad is like yours. don't know how this helps, but there is your question answered.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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Yourconfuse, thanks I appreciate all your input.
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OK so when going to home depot you are going to take the one good one with you so you have the best chance of getting a match right? or are you afraid of killing the other one if you mess with it. my thought is that if one is bad then the other is in a similar state and may soon fail, so replacing both would be a good idea. also try checking a trans shop as they have tons of spare parts that they usually would give away.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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Yourconfused, Thanks, I will try to buy both nuts. Ther other doesnt appear to be bad, but just to be safe. I think I may have slightly overtightned the one that split in half. It must have been weak, or are these hex nuts very soft.
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good luck and use PTFE when installing the new ones, and also don't over tighten as that is a sure way to break things.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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The stock rads have the tube incerted before tha rads are assembled. Call me in the morning. I just got in a new Chinese rad, have one in one of the 93s, and can send the fitting. A picture is worth 1000 words. Tom
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Could you.........
just heat the fitting slightly to melt the solder and take a steel brush and brush the solder mostly off the threads??
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what is the outcome of this?
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin blk 92' LSL w/ average mods pics here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn277/yourconfused/ Cash68: "Hmm, I wouldn't brag about beating Escorts. That's like saying you tricked a retarded person." |
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