Radiator damage!

[AirSpeed]

I was on my way to a doctor app about 70 miles away this morning, I was behind a pickup that had his tailgate down. The guy in front if me hit a bump and a box of cut up chunks of steel fell out, I heard something hit my truck so I pulled over behind the truck to see if I had damage, I looked all over my truck and couldn't find any damage so I helped the guy pick up his crap off the road and took off. About ten miles down the road my truck started overheating, I pulled over to find a chunk of steel stuck in my brand new radiator, a nice hole spraying coolant all over. As I'm sitting there with my hood up, the guy who's crap hit my rad cruised on by, he didn't even slow down! I helped that jerk pick up his crap and he didn't have the decency to stop and see if I needed help! I had a gallon of water in my truck but no tools, all I needed was a pair of pliers but had none, I know that jerk had pliers because his truck was full of tools. I made it to a little store where I was able to buy some pliers and punched off the tube, made it to my doctor app and all the way home but now I need to fix this hole. Any ideas how to fix aluminum radiator tubes? I've never tried to fix aluminum and assume I can't solder it. What can I use? It's a small hole , maybe 1/8" at most. Thanks for any suggestions!
I hope I see that guy broke down sometime!

[entropyrad]

That sucks. Sorry to hear about it and you added to your karma bank so it will come back around to you in good fortune.

For fixing it, brazing is out of the question. Use a high temp two-part epoxy and pinch off the tube or a DevCon p/n 10720 epoxy (preferred) for fixing it.

[AirSpeed]

Originally Posted by entropyrad

That sucks. Sorry to hear about it and you added to your karma bank so it will come back around to you in good fortune.

For fixing it, brazing is out of the question. Use a high temp two-part epoxy and pinch off the tube or a DevCon p/n 10720 epoxy (preferred) for fixing it.

Thanks! I always pull over when I see people broke down, it sucks sitting on the side of the road with countless cars driving on by! I'll give the epoxy a try. Thanks again!

[davepl]

That sucks. A woman here got a table in the face a couple of years ago. Lost her eyes, nose, mouth, everything. All because someone was in a rush and didn't secure their load.

I also saw a motorcyclist get taken out by the removable roof of a C3 Vette that was being trailered. I don't know C3s but there must have been latches not secured or something.

30 years ago I stopped to help out a couple of guys in a broken down UHaul. I guess I was less paranoid back then because I gave him my name and home address - he said he wanted to send me something, so why not. I later got this book of the weirdest religion I've ever seen.... The Phiolosophy of Silver Birch or something odd.

No offense to Silver Birchers on the forum :-)