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[GMCnet] Aluminum rad issues [message #271491] Mon, 09 February 2015 09:19 Go to previous message
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Miguel posted this on FB.
I thought it might be of interest here.


Miguel Mendez 8:13am Feb 9
something I ran into a week or so ago, Had a customer call with a failed trans and over heating in the water temp., It was a nice day, sunny and warm, so, I rode my motorcycle and enjoyed the ride, about 58 miles one way, when I got there, the darndest thing , 1st, I pulled the trans dipstick, found foamy pink fluid, ask him if he added anything to his trans, you know, the fix all trans snake oil stuff, he said no, not at all, I really was at a lost, so, I went up front to check the cooling system and noticed the same fluid in the Aluminum radiator, again, at a bigger lost, same ?, did you add anything to the cooling system, he said nope, so, all I could figure is, the internal trans cooler in the Dobson Aluminum radiator failed, allowing the coolant and the trans fluid to mix up and finally causing the trans failure, contacted other venders to see if I was smoking something wrong here and the other said, they ran into the same problem, one vendor said he had had 7 failure of
this nature and, the vendor of the aluminum radiators will not cover anything on the damage , not even the radiators, so, please keep and eye open for pink fluid, this does not mean every one is going to fail, this radiator is just over 1 year old so, those who have had theirs in for longer might be safe, Just something to keep an eye on


Les Burt
Montreal

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