Not here in the midwest........
Had a shot radiator for a M114...huge core....rotted out. Had good tanks
though...my local guy looked up a core....more efficient........than the
old one...and fixed me right up..it works great...runs cooler on hot
days..........worth every penny.
Jon
t 07:35 AM 6/11/01 -0700, Carol Kenyon wrote:
>Listers, as a automotive techncian I am witness
>to a few things...
> Most if not all new radiators are composite
>aluminum and plastic. VERY efficient. However, your local poor-old
>lead-in-his-veins
>radiator man is on his way out. Don't take his
>presence for granted. You don't repair this new
>stuff, you throw it out!
> I am sure that in the bigger metro areas that
>there will always be someone, but in lttle towns
>like mine they are very slow. It's so cheap to
>buy a Taiwan replacement radiator, why fix it?
> As far as gas tanks go, our remainng guys don't do them.
> Perhaps big trucks are a different story, I don't
>know.
> Sorry about the pessimism.
>Don Kenyon in Central California
>
>
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