Best I can come up with was a repair to my '79 rabbit. We were in Ellensburg, WA, looking for college apartments. 100 or so miles from home. I noticed water leaking out by the fan switch, went to tighten it a bit and the whole assembly came off in my hands. The plastic collar had broken cleanly off. My buddy Jeff and I went to the local supermarket, where he bought a rubber dog toy - shaped like a dumbbell - with an octagonal cross-section a little bigger than the hole in the radiator. He then used my pocket knife to cut threads in it and screwed it into the hole. We re-filled the radiator, scavenged my fog light wiring to make a switch for the fan and drove successfully home over the cascade mountains. Randy, Carla & Anna Huyck, Olympia, WA '75 Rustfalia '85 Vanagon GL '74 Super Beetle '01 Ford F150 |
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