I just got handed some bad news, my radiator has a small leak, so I thought while I had some time and a extra car, I'd pull the radiator out and take it down to the local radiator repair shop. The fellow down their said it's not worth fixing. He went on to say the side (inlet tank) was separating from the radiator and pointed out the staining on the side and they just throw these away instead of taking the time to fix them. The only place I saw anti-freeze steaming out was on the inlet tube, not on the side and only a few times.

Is he giving me a line just to sell a new one? I'd really like to keep this one if I can, it's for a manual transmission so it doesn't have the transmission cooler inlet/outlets.

I've never tried to fix a radiator before, the only thing that would need to be done as far as I know is the side tank needs to be re-soldered. Is this something a novice could do? What materials/equipment would I need?

I guess things aren't what they were twenty plus years ago.....

I just got handed some bad news, my radiator has a small leak, so I thought while I had some time and a extra car, I'd pull the radiator out and take it down to the local radiator repair shop. The fellow down their said it's not worth fixing. He went on to say the side (inlet tank) was separating from the radiator and pointed out the staining on the side and they just throw these away instead of taking the time to fix them. The only place I saw anti-freeze steaming out was on the inlet tube, not on the side and only a few times.

Is he giving me a line just to sell a new one? I'd really like to keep this one if I can, it's for a manual transmission so it doesn't have the transmission cooler inlet/outlets.

I've never tried to fix a radiator before, the only thing that would need to be done as far as I know is the side tank needs to be re-soldered. Is this something a novice could do? What materials/equipment would I need?

I guess things aren't what they were twenty plus years ago.....

Sounds to me like hes handing you a load of stuff ... any good rad shop can repair .. recore and so on ... find another shop thats reputable .
sounds like he dosent care to do the work ...If you care to ship the rad I have a gentelmen that has done exelent work for 30 years ... owned a rad shop till copper brass took a nose dive ...everything went to plastic tanks and aluminum cores .
p/m me if you want his number
Don

I appreciate the info, I'm going go around to a few more shops in the area tomorrow then make a choice.

I checked out your site because of the good reviews, but can't justify the $$ right now. Looks like pretty neat stuff.:)

I appreciate the info, I'm going go around to a few more shops in the area tomorrow then make a choice.

I checked out your site because of the good reviews, but can't justify the $$ right now. Looks like pretty neat stuff.:)

Thanks for the kind words .
It's getting hard to find a good radiator shop these days .
with all the cheeper repops out there it killed the shop's
almost a lost art ...the gentelmen I was talking about ... I just gave him a call to see if he was interested in recoring any Harrison radiators...he said yes ...with out a dought ...so if any of you folks out there need this service done ... he has over 30 yrs experence and does fantastic work ..and has acsess to fresh cores from Heatex cores ... American made stuff guys .
he has given me permission to give out his number here
Rob Haggerty PH. 810-227-4380
Shipping would be about $30.00 from C.A to M.I .
hope this helps some of you .
Don

Thanks for the info, I'll keep it in case I need it later.

This morning I had better news, I took it to another shop that does radiator repair and the guy said he could have it ready before noon. He thought the other shop probably just wanted to make a quick buck instead of taking the time to repair it.