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Re: replacing radiator after meltdown
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Originally Posted by PRattenbury
A junkyard radiator is a calculated risk. Instead of throwing $100 or more into a vehicle that may be NFG you throw 40 or 50 bucks at it. If the truck turns out to be unworthy of any further effort, you're out less money. If it is worth it, maybe you get 6 months or a year out of the radiator before you gotta spend the bigger bucks to do a primo job on the cooling system. Bet hey, just one guy's opinion...
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And if you get a clogged/slow flowing radiator from the junk yard, install it and have the same over-heating problem? You blame the rest of the truck, thinking that there is something else wrong. This may make you abandon a perfectly good vehicle because of what was just a bad radiator.
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Originally Posted by Longhorn Man
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