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Old 12-08-2025, 10:46 PM
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As a former radiator shop tech (40 yrs ago)....

Visit pretty much any non-chain radiator shop and they will most likely give you the correct size plugs for free (or very cheap) if not they will probably be able pull the tank off the header plate and install a manual tank. Radiator tanks are sold by manufacturers to shops only, so you won't find them outside that chain.

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That's good info. If this doesn't work for some reason, I'll try that. Now... all I need to do is find a radiator repair shop in 2025...
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Old 12-08-2025, 10:52 PM
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That's good info. If this doesn't work for some reason, I'll try that. Now... all I need to do is find a radiator repair shop in 2025...
I hadn’t thought about shops disappearing and being only general type shops now.

I'm too old and too long outside of the US.

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Now... all I need to do is find a radiator repair shop in 2025...
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I hadn’t thought about shops disappearing and being only general type shops now. I'm too old
Some rad repair shops are still out there, but not as many as there were, even 10 years ago.

I'm even older than you, EODguy, and remember back when there were all sorts of specialty shops all around my area, and even more out near where my Dad worked, surrounded by a Naval Air Station, and two aerospace manufacturing plants (my Dad worked for LTV-Chance Vought, and my Grandmother had retired from Temco, next door, after 20 years, from '43-'63).

All those skilled workers (mostly trained in WW2) had their own side businesses and shops, and they could repair about everything. Same in our neighborhood, full of the same people and skill-sets. If you needed a car (or whatever) repaired, there was always a shop nearby to get anything done...usually recommended by word-of-mouth (who needed Yellow Pages or the Internet?).
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