Hello Everyone
Why waste your time on a used-up radiator?
The service life is 100K or ten years.
Yes, the actual materials loose heat exchange capacity over time, it may look perfect, but I can put it in an Automotive Radiator Calorimeter and prove the massive cooling capacity loss.

I have seen more people blow engines; trying to get another couple of years out of a used-up radiator.
I can make no sense of it.
The last thing any diesel owner wants is an over heated engine, so why are you risking this?

Very confused.

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