• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Radiator Help

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xaman

Husqvarna
B Class
Hello all,

I'm having some radiator issues... About a month ago my right radiator sprung a leak. Turns out it was a hairline crack along one of the ridges. I had a local guy silver solder it and all seemed well. Until today... The left radiator leaked while out riding.

Pulled the radiator, and it looks like essentially the same kind of leak in almost exactly the same place. First ridge just at the lower mounting point to the frame. I couldn't get the hairline crack to show up, but see the pencil pointing -- it's about 1" long on the top of the ridge.


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Now I'm scratching my head wondering if I ought to replace them both, or have the same guy solder again, or what... I'm wondering now if there is something wrong and a new rad will just bust in the same way.

Any advice from those more knowledgable than myself would be welcomed.
 
Not sure what kind of bike it is, but its possible it is getting thin from corrosion.
It could also be a cap that it holding too much pressure & stressing the tubes.
If the bike is getting on a bit it could just be fatigue near the mounts.
You could get it repaired & pressure tested again & might be OK, but if it fails again & you cook the engine the price of the radiators will seem cheap.

Zipty also have waterless coolant, by all accounts it won't corrode if left too long like water based coolant & reduces overall system pressure by not expanding. You could try that too.
 
Awesome, that's very helpful. Thinking I'll order the Myler's super cool rads for the TC250. Hope it's really a straight fit.
 
xaman said:
Awesome, that's very helpful. Thinking I'll order the Myler's super cool rads for the TC250. Hope it's really a straight fit.
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If you ordered and installed the 250 rads how are they holding up? Did they fit good and did you have to do any modifications for them? Thank you
 
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