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Originally Posted by fruitcakesa
My car has a manual trans and does not have auto trans line fittings on the lower tank. It is the original Behr rad.
The new Behrs I have seen for sale all have the AT fittings.
Is there a manual trans rad or do they just use the same one for both trans?
What is the thread size of those fittings and where would I get caps to plug them?
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I can't speak for Merc radiators, but every other manual car replacement radiator I have dealt with tends to be available only in the auto versions. There is almost always some little plastic plugs in the transmission cooler fittings, and they can just be left there.
I wouldn't count the radiator out just yet. many a small hole in the core can be fixed by old-fashioned radiator shops. Radiator repair is a dying art, and if you still have such a shop near by, I'd let them have a crack at a core leak.
Even a crack in the plastic tanks on a Merc radiator are not always a death sentence, as M-B has a repair kit just for fixing them. Somewhere out there, I have even seen a metal repair collar that takes care of cracked plastic radiator necks for Mercs.