Nice to see those images. Thanks for posting them. I can see how that USB scope would be useful... in the right hands. I assume this radiator has metal tanks. When I inspected inside an '85 WBX radiator, there wasn't a whole lot of debris, what not. a few images here https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/19WBXRadiatorOpenedUp#5377715571722535154
On 7/13/16, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca> wrote: > I bought the USB endoscope I mentioned in the previous post. $27 on Amazon. > (Cheaper on ebay, but would take a month to ship from China) > The endoscope / borescope was quite handy, letting me look inside the > radiator through the fan switch thermostat and in/outlets. > > No crud or scaling was to be seen in the radiator, but as I had expected > from the tests I did before (see previous post) coolant was passing directly > between the hot and cold sides. Turns out the baffle separating the hot and > cold half in the passenger side tank was broken. My guess is that the > interior soldering of the baffle was weakened when the side tank was > soldered on from the outside. Then many cycles of flexing the poorly > attached brass baffle finally broke a piece off. > I wonder if I can plug this hole w/o taking the radiator out. E.g. with > epoxy putty or high temp silicone. > > Pictures on:https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/Pictures/VanagonDRad/ -- Neil n Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy> 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/> Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay> |
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