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does this look suspiciously like an old radweld repair? just found it when i pulled off the bumper to fix a ding.
any ideas?
Thats definitely radiator guff !
yup. guffy mcguff face!
anyone help with this. where is this guffy guff most likely coming from?
not how i imagined a radweld type repair would look to be honest.
perhaps a slow leek that's just collected the guff as it's sticky?
A few months back I stumbled across some web page suggesting a quick rad leak fix is to drop in a few eggs.
Perhaps that's what that shit is - aluminium 'n egg ...
🙂
Definitely some sort of 'albuminium' 😆
egg-n-'minuim. yep that's a fairly well-known folk remedy. NOT worth trying i'd say.
don't think it's egg tho, having scraped a bit off.
i'll have to just run the van a bit and see if rad liquid goes down, if it leaks noticeably i guess
A few months back I stumbled across some web page suggesting a quick rad leak fix is to drop in a few eggs.
Very 1960s, that and nylon tights for the gear box...
any ideas?
If it isn't leaking water, stick the bumper back on a forget you ever saw it! 🙂
no worries there muffin-man. that's exactly what i've done!
except i'm not going to forget about it altogether, better keep i eye on it i reckon
A few months back I stumbled across some web page suggesting a quick rad leak fix is to drop in a few eggs.
'a few eggs' is a bit excessive. One a day should be sufficient.
nylon tights for the gear box...
I thought it was a lady's stocking to repair a broken fan belt.
Although frankly, if a fan belt goes, and the person coming to my aid is a lady in stockings which she's prepared to take off for me, the bloody fan belt can stay broken!
'a few eggs' is a bit excessive. One a day should be sufficient
It is in France where one egg is un oeuf
I'll get my coat!
Although frankly, if a fan belt goes, and the person coming to my aid is a lady in stockings which she's prepared to take off for me, the bloody fan belt can stay broken!
very 1960s : )
and damn alanf. totaly won that one!
and turns out, it is in france. but still not putting an egg anywhere near it
I'd suggest that guff is just crap from the the fans blowing air through the rad or just a build up of road muck.
Is it solid and hard, or soft and crumbly compacted dust?
My first thought was that looks like some powder of some sort that’s collected there, from the fan, from a bracket that’s moving and wearing, something like that.
I thought it was sawdust in gearboxes? and petrol tanks patched with chewing gum.
Definitely some sort of 'albuminium'
Take the rest of the day off, you've just won the Internet.
Excellent work from AlanF and Selkirkbear.
And I wasn't suggesting putting in an egg BTW - just that I'd read about it.
Just to be sure, like...
no worries teasel : )
so yes it is not solid and hard but looks like dust, almost graphite-like, which has collected in somethign sitcky or just wet, not somethign that has gone-off hard.
good idea PeterPoddy about something wearing. i'll have a closer look.