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Old 12-03-2006, 07:56 AM
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short term measure, its bloody snowing outside and i have a long drive later on,gonna be baltic,so could i reconnect the leaky matrix and rad weld it?
Old 12-03-2006, 08:08 AM
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yep should work just the same...
horrible stuff !
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sweet work,saves me trying to find a scrappy open today,plus id probably kill meself in the snow looking for it! 2 pound radweld here we come! ill get a new matrix in there sometime and flush the system through though!
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I used it once and it shafted the thermostat Would not open

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before or after it filled the hole? ive used it on a metro for the rad once and it worked PERFECTLY!,just didnt know what it would do with a matrix as its a touch different.
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It stopped the leak but shafted the stat

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