I was told today that the top connection to my radiator was broken and part of the pipe remained in the top radiator hose - which caused a loss of the anti-freeze and overheating of the engine. My mechanic thinks that there is no way to repair the short ( about an inch or so) plastic pipe that remains on the radiator because the hose slips off the pipe even after the hose has been tightened. He says the plastic radiator prevents him from fixing the pipe and that I need a new radiator! It appears as if there is enough of the radiator pipe left that if I could remove the part of the pipe that's in the hose and reconnect it to the radiator by using some type of pipe like PVC or whatever combined with something like epoxy to fix this problem. Help!

Marvin Smith