PatJ wrote:
Wondering what you learned here? Did you pull lower hose and look at in rad heat exchanger?
Thanks for checking back. No I haven't had a chance to pull the hose yet. But the drive home from the desert this morning convinced me that I need to do it sooner rather than later. The biggest problem is I haven't found a drain **** on the radiator and I don't want gallons of antifreeze hitting the driveway from just pulling the lower hose.
So in the interim I rigged up a poor mans cooler to keep the heat down while I try to save up some money for the inevitable parts swap. My son's car was headed to the junk yard so I pulled the windshield washer jug and tubing out if it before sending it on it's way. I mounted the jug under the hood of the Suburban and ran a line up to a patio mister pointed across the transmission cooler. While it's not perfect,(okay yes it is really redneck) it does keep the temps from hitting the red zone.
