Shake rattle and roll.............'86 MGM 5.0

[friskyfrankie]

Not sure of the weather up in the "Big Apple" but it probably is not conducive to looking into it now. They are, when conditions allow, a good place to start.

[gadget73]

if someone unscrewed the fittings when the radiator was replaced, fair guess thats related. They have an O ring in there and when you rotate the fitting after decades the O ring tends to leak. it is possible to rebuild them but its sort of annoying, or you just get new fittings.

[Toploader]

Not sure of the weather up in the "Big Apple" but it probably is not conducive to looking into it now. They are, when conditions allow, a good place to start.

Yes huge snow storm headed to the rotting apple, at least my Tudor will be buried under lots of snow which means I do not to move the car for street cleaning.........and also the snow hastening the rot all over the body:-(

[Toploader]

if someone unscrewed the fittings when the radiator was replaced, fair guess thats related. They have an O ring in there and when you rotate the fitting after decades the O ring tends to leak. it is possible to rebuild them but its sort of annoying, or you just get new fittings.

Thain I remember the fittings on the old radiator were leaking like crazy, very fortunately my bud had some new ones that he had in a drawer for like 30 years, also the fittings going into the trans were leaking.

[gadget73]

yeah they get leaky. Its a fairly crappy connector. Plastic thing to wedge the steel tube in place, single O ring to actually make the seal. Rebuilding them is just pull the plastic thing out, fish the O ring out, clean the dirt and crust out, put a new O ring in and put the plastic in. Easier said than done though, the O ring is halfway down inside and getting a pick to fish it out is sort of tedious. Last pair I did took me like 20 minutes, though I was working with my hand bandaged up from my own stupidity. New ones were out of stock everywhere though, and an engine swap was happening so basically it was either I get them rebuilt, or I'd have to dip into my emergency backup stock. I wasn't of much use with my hand wrapped up so I fixed the connectors. Used AC O rings too, because thats what I had. Handily anything you can seal with a common black nitrile ring can also be sealed with a green HNBR ring. I have those things fixing fuel line connectors on my diesel and as air solenoid seals on the Mark VII.