Isuzu Trooper Owners Club UK™

diggerjohn · Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 21:57 Post subject: K reg 3.1 trooper radiators

Hi all Members,

Just joined the club Ive owned my swb trooper for 6 years with about 140 thou on the clock. The rad sprang a hole a few months ago and I was advised they all tend to rot out the cores. I did a tempory repair with a jampot lid... I found the leak and made a small hole in the centre of the jampot lid. I wedged it in place with a bit of wood and forced some builders expanding fixer foam into the hole in the lid. Obviously this went through the core and after an hour it set and I cleaned off the excess and refilled with water. It was only supposed to be a tempory repair but its still holding pressure after 3 months. Obviously its a bodge but it saves £150 for a new core.....May help someone out

Regards John..............j50rew@hotmail.com

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Paul V · **** Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 350

Tis the last spoonfull of jam i'll ever eat...sounds like some ghastly Antipodean bush fix..this is simply not the done thing with a 3.1 old chap.

PV
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rg · **** Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 356

diggerjohn,

Are you in the UK, or somewhere more civilised?

Milner Offroad are doing new rads (non-exchange) for around GBP150.00.

Echoing PV, personally, I would [i]never[/i] take any chances with a cooling system, having suffered a totalled Mazda engine due to rapid coolant loss some years ago. There is little warning, and the effects are pretty expensive.

rg

jon willy · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:58 Post subject:

I'm with RG on this one .. all the way.....
Even if your alert enough not to blow the engine, what price being towed off a motorway or other inconvenience and still plus the price of a rad anyway.
You've had the Scarbro warning 'The cores rotten' i'm all for emergency fixes and it sounds good.

Jon.
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Philp · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:55 Post subject:

A good radiator specialist may be able to repair or recore it for less than the cost of a new one. If the rad is aluminium avoid getting chemicals like traffic film remover, particularly the stuff the use/sell for trucks as it will eat the alumnium if not washed off thoroughly. I had a rad on a Seat Toldedo just dissolve and the radiator guy reckoned it was because of this.
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rg · **** Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 356

I took one off my Monterey, as the top hose pipe fixing had a rip in it. It's plastic/hard-ish PVC

It would not work with the Kenlowe fan sensor I had which involves a rubber insert for the temperature probe. It works fine with the standard hose, though, as the damage is well "downstream" of the jubilee clip mounting area.

Apart from this problem, I would not have replaced it.

If you would like this one, please mail me off-list and I will bung it on eebuygum

rg