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Re: radiator leaks

To: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>, mg-t@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: radiator leaks
From: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:47:22 -0600
The submarine story I believe is either in the Barr's leak packaging, 
or in a leaflet they produced. It (they story) has been around for 
decades. Many new cars use it, or similar in their new off the 
factory floor cars and trucks. A little is good, a lot, not.
         Peter C.

At 07:08 AM 3/10/2006, you wrote:

>Terry,
>    Just last weekend,  Click & Clack, the Car Talk guys on NPR, were
>talking about this.  They related that some years ago a reactor leak in a
>US submarine just could not be located.  The skipper sent out for Barr's
>Leak ( or some other compound ) that effectively cured the problem.
>    MG mentions the use of Barrs somewhere in its mid 1970s tech
>bulletins. One infers that they were having radiator or waterpump issues
>then.
>    I used it once, successfully, in a weeping radiator of an S-10
>Chevrolet.  Use per directions, just one can at most. It may well do the
>trick for you in the unpressurised NA system.
>Bob
>
>
>On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:18:33 EST TATERRY@aol.com writes:
> > Has anyone on the lists experience with the various radiator "stop
> > leaks"
> > componds......or a preference of one over the other?  I finally got
> > the old NA
> > started after all these years and wuoldn't you know it, the radiator
> > is
> > leaking....and I did have it pressure tested a few years back.
> > Looking for a miracle
> > cure before pulling it for repair!
> > Terry in Oakland

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