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View Poll Results: What's in your 1.9L's coolant system?
Stock, leaking... 5 33.33%
All metal baby... The only way to go... 0 0%
Replaced the leaky one, now this one's spouting coolant! 0 0%
Replaced the leaky one, fine now. 5 33.33%
Stock radiator, doing good so far! 5 33.33%
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Old 12-06-2004, 06:22 AM   #1
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My stock (as far as I know) 97 radiator has sprung a leak... Just as many other's have had, it's a crack in the upper driver's side on the end tank. I'll be replacing it shortly, and maybe later on, when I get some good cash flow going, I'll purchase an all-metal one.

What's the cheapest all-metal radiator for our 1.9L's? I've read about using a Chevrolet (Cavalier radiator?) with modified mounting points...

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Old 12-07-2004, 01:42 AM   #2
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My original rad started leaking and I replaced it, it was fine. Then my girlfriend took a speed bump in her words "a little fast"...fast enough to crash the front end on the ground and bow the brand new rad.

Sure enough, within a few months, that rad was leaking. I replaced it and it's fine now
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Old 12-07-2004, 02:39 AM   #3
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Original with an occasional leak. It sparatically leaks, but with no known relation between driving or maintenence and outside weather.

Thankfully it's hardly any, but enough to set off the light.
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Old 12-07-2004, 03:37 PM   #4
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Only had one go bad, but then I only run the correct coolant and distilled water.
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Old 12-08-2004, 10:28 PM   #5
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well i had the stock non leaking one in mine for 165,000 miles then one day i got ran off the road in a snowstorm, and the tree i landed on kinda made it leak
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