Paprika

As the topic says, somehow i managed to loose the drain plug to my radiator.
My radiator is not the OEM one, it is a Autozone replacement.
Autozone, Advanced Auto Parts and Pepboys all said they have to order it in.'

The problem is that what they're ordering is the plug for the OEM unit, which may not nessesarily work for my Autozone replacement. I asked Autozone if they had the plug which goes to this replacement radiator and they basically gave me the idea all they can get their hands on is the OEM replacement.

I was suppose to leave for school tomorow, but now I can't even drive the car because of this. I don't have any bolts on hand which can fit the hole. So after some thinking I thought about just sealing the plug hole with JB Weld?

What would you do?

sniggler316

Buy another radiator, take the drain plug out and return it. Or ask them to sell it to you off of their replacement radiator

teknoracing

yeah , i would do what he said and buy another radiator. Worse case, ask for a ride. Dude, its Jan 1st, schools closed.

Paprika

Buy a totally new radiator and leave it at that?

Because I doubt they'll sell me just the plug off of one of their replacement radiators.

And I'm not so sure they'll take one back that's missing the plug. I mean they MIGHT because the plug isn't really that much in that respect but ..

Also, i was heading back to school early to get my things ready.

I just bought this radiator this past summer.

Paprika

Well after rappin with my dude at Advanced Auto he said he can get me a standard replacement plug by tomorrow moring, and he also stated that because the radiator is based off of OEM specs the plug should fit the aftermarket ReadyRad radiator that I also bough from them back over the summer.


so there was an error in my first post, i got the radiator from AVP no AZ

That sound right you guys? plug for aftermarket replacement radiator being the same as the oem one?

Paprika

Bump for suggestions.

Lets hope these things match when I go up here.

bart2546

Hmm, PERHAPS just to rig something up until you can get it to a proper place to fix it RIGHT, from a local autostore, get some kind of rubber plug, something that you'll have to jam into it with some prying of a flathead screw driver (E.G. something too big for the hole) and then smother over top of that a lot of shoe gue and duct tape, it should hold for a while.

malubawla

local autopart store like autozone should sell them, they are technically called "drain ****"

Paprika

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Yeah I learned this tonight.

I pick up the drain **** in the morning, ill let you know if it fits. If i don't respond then assume it fitted :-p

b16adx

it will fit

Frozen E

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Paprika &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If i don't respond then assume it fitted :-p</TD></TR></TABLE>

Trust me, nobody's going to lose any sleep over your drain ****.