Repairing the cracked radiator of your car is an easy task, but it can save your money if you do the repairing task yourself. Several parts of the plastic radiator can leak from the cracked hose or from the body of the radiator itself. Before repairing the radiator hose of your car, first you need to recognize the fittings which can lead to the radiator. If you find the leakage in any of the plastic radiators then roll up the sleeves and put the old clothes on the radiator. Here the given slides will help you to determine the cracked plastic radiator of your car and way to repair it.
2. Repairing the cracked radiator is a
relatively quick and easy job, but
you can save your money by
locating the crack and fixing the
problem yourself.
3. Various parts of the plastic
radiator can leak. The leakage can
be arises from the cracked hose or
the body of the radiator itself.
4. Before you perform the actual
repair of the car, the first thing you
need to examine the fittings that
can lead to the radiator.
5. In this cases, the leakage is coming
from the radiator, put the old
clothes on, roll up the sleeves and
go through the below steps.
7. The easiest method to detect the
cracked radiator by letting the
engine running until the
temperature is normally high.
8. It will take half an hour before
building the pressure and shut off
the engine so, the pressure
removes the coolant from the
crack.
9. Mark cracked area with a marker
and wait for the tank to cool down
and take the cap off. At last, check
the crack is either above or below
the coolant level.
10. If it is below the level, drain some
coolant until the crack visible.
Remove the lower hose cap to
drain the radiator tank.
17. You can press the soldering iron
against the tie until it begins to
melt or just working like a sealant
and press the tie to wrap it into the
crack.
18. You can slowly move along the
cracked area and ensure that it
could melt well enough to seal the
crack.
19. Keep melting them in one place
until the tie and its surrounding
areas turn into a hot liquid. Melt
the entire crack and wait for the
liquid to harden.
20. At last, cut off all the unused area
of the tie and fill the coolant in the
radiator to complete the test and
make sure that the crack is sealed
completely.