Engine surge tank
Purchased a 3 year old Tiffin Phaeton 36QSR with a 2013 XCR-Series Freightliner Custom Chassis. ISC 8.3 Cummins engine. Have owned it for a year and have 27,000 miles on it. This unit has the radia...
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Trackrig wrote:Jim@HiTek wrote:
On my '02, rear rad, Cat 3126, Freightliner chassis, my tank is showing some spider cracks and I'm getting close to replacing it (I've owned the rig since Feb. '16). In the meantime, I used Eternabond tape to cover the cracking area to get a few more months out of it. This summer is the target replacement time thoughRad & Cooling
Jim, if it really starts to leak with pressure behind it, I don't think the Eternabond will hold it.
Bill
I wondered about pressure too. But most owners who posted on various forums, said the tank began to 'weep' first so I didn't expect a catastrophic failure. I felt comfortable giving the Ebond a try.
Incidently, I have a friend with an '04 Journey. Also has the same surge tank. Except her's was in pretty bad shape compared to mine. Was both spider cracked and crumbling like the plastic was rotten, but we were in Mexico and she wanted to wait until she got home to Vermont to fix it. So I did the Ebond patch on her tank and April '17 she drove from Baja to Vermont without a problem.
