Ferrari Mailing List: Re: cleaning of radiator

[Michael James (cavallino_rapante]

Personally, Rodding-out a 30-year-old brass radiator is not a bad thing.  Corrosion is real, it happens, and rust also can collect inside the unit.  It is cheap insurance.  If you have a split-core unit, you may want to think of a re-core.  $450 buys you a re-core, with a better/more-efficient core insert.  I will be doing this, along with rodding-out the heater radiators, just as soon as I can get a weekday off.....

 

BTW, Clyde is smoking something - BOTH of my fans come on when the Radiator Thermo switch kicked-on at 185 F.  I 'upgraded' to a VW unit of the same size that turned-on the fans alittle earlier.  I'd find one of those, its about $45 cheaper.

 

M

--- On Mon, 2/21/11, Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca> wrote:

From: Michel Savard <mysavard [at] videotron.ca>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] cleaning of radiator
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 6:37 PM

Yes overheating problem at slow speed in town. But my AC never worked in 9 years I have had the car. I  never tried to find out why.So, I thought, if I take the condenser out, which I did and it is REALLY REALLY beat up, I'll have more air going directly to the radiator. Hopefully it will help.

But like I wrote, I cleaned the outside and painted it BEFORE asking about the importance of cleaning the inside. My bad.

 

Michael Savard

----- Original Message -----

From: Doug and Terri Anderson

To: Michel Savard

Cc: The FerrariList

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:21 PM

Subject: Re: [Ferrari] cleaning of radiator

Michel -

Why did you take the radiator out in the first place? 

Overheating problems?

DOUG

----- Original Message -----

From: Michel Savard

To: DOUG

Cc: The FerrariList

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:18 PM

Subject: [Ferrari] cleaning of radiator

1981 308 GTSi: I took the radiator out and cleaned the outside  and straightened every single blade. I painted it too.

My question is, is it really worth to have it send to a shop to have the inside cleaned ?

I was told they put it in a tank in special liquid. Now my brand new paint will be ruined. I'll have to paint it again. Not that painful to do, but I just need to know if it's worth having it put in a tank ?

 

Thank you!

Michael Savard

 

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