Greetings and salutaions,
I would strongly suggest that you verify the radiator is a japan radiator product and you can find a wholesaler to replace it with an oem radiator.
If that does not work L+M radiator should be able to help you with a replacement radiator with replaceable tubes and zero problems or a high quality standard replacement.
If that fails the radiator is a Japan radiator product from what I remember and should be easy to find a replacement exactly like it at less cost with a searching radiator sites in the web which is how I found an original replacement for my Isuzu engine on my fifteen year old 4 by 4 Isuzu truck
Here is thier home page.
L&M Radiator, worldwide manufacturer and distributor of MESABI flexible core heat exchangers for all heavy-duty equipment. Manufacturing facilities in the United States, Mexico and Australia.
AND for the benefit of my fellow mechanics here is my Mesabi radiator story.
Disclaimer:
I will not be held responsible broken bones due to falling over from laughter, pulled muscles from gut aches from the ensuing laughter. blurred vision from laughing so hard your are crying, strained vocal cords, passing gas while laughing and upsetting thee women folk or recieving thine daughters scorn and rolling eyes from same, scareing thy castles cats and affecting their collective rat catching quotas, and finding them glued to walls and ceilings of thine castle, and pulling down thine sound absorbing tiles, admitting ceiling insulation into thine castle, affecting thine hounds scenting ability from gasses of sulphur, and alas the comments from thy queen asking what is so funny that makes you seem possessed by demons and requiring the fetching of the village alchemist to create a potion antidote and the need to dispatch the castle messenger to Id to request an audience with the kings (whilst the Kings Mum is calling him a fink while his mum is scrubbing the castle floors) to consult with the kings wizard while the wizard is being questioned by the wizards wife-Blanche about whether or not she looks fat in the dress she is wearing), for thine afflictions resulting from the following tale not involving a 3 hour tour by motor launch in the Hawaiian islands involving the Skipper, Gilligan, Ginger, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Howell 3rd, The Professor and Mary Anne.
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the above is part of the proposed route of my future G scale railroad near my castle
Onward to the legend created by fact and actual events, and many a belly laugh that would make the court jester desire to draw blood from the teller of the tale and make the village fool green with envy.
The story begins on the night shift after many months of mining salt with one of the "new to us" used Wagner ST-6A mining shovels from the white pine copper mine (now flooded).
So anyway we began disassembling the engine compartment of the mining shovel to access the engine compartment and expose the radiator which was leaking and needed repair.
The radiator was exposed and much to my happiness as mechanic, it was found to be a Mesabi type radiator with replaceable cores, sealing O rings, and quick surgery in the hospital with a quick return work.
I labored to explain to the shop foreman (who was recently promoted to the maintenance general foreman/department manager) no accounting for taste or ............... I explained that all that was required were what ever numerous core elements required, sealing o rings, and the special interanl snap ring pliers used to install and remove the cores and the radiator could be repaired in place. my co-workers and my supervisor had ever never seen a radiator like this and refused to believe it was possible to repair the radiator in place.
I labored to explain the removal was unecessary and it could be repaired in place to no issues. but my supervisor ordered the radiator removed and sent for repair. I was overuled and was told I did not know what I was talking about..........................
A few days later the radiator was returned from the repair shop with an eigth thousand dollar repair charge and Lo anf Behold the replaceable cores upper element and lower element were replaced with 0a standard core radiator................................
Needless to say "this fool who new nothing" could barely contain his laughter as the radiator shop owner was called and asked why he destroyed a 10,000 dollar radiator; his answer was that he had never seen a radiator like that and simply replaced it with a conventional upper element, core, and lower element and the L+M radiator was destroyed for scrap.
As a result a weeks production was lost with this machine being in hospital and 24 hours of labor was wasted involving several junior mechanics and the journeyman mechanic who was described as the company fool, almost $20,000.00 USD plus labor cost was expended when this money could have been saved by simply listening to said journeyman mechanic (me) and the" pass the buck, double talk, The radiator shop was at fault shop talk was the reason the radiator was replaced, BECAUSE THEY DID WORK FOR US BEFORE AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
So ended this tale on that day only to be followed by many more instances which I was fortunate to witness over 22 years and have many many laughs.
leon
The moral of the story is: stop, look and listen.
Disclaimer:
The opinions expressed by the author are his own and result from many years of maintenance and repair of mining machinery,
and are in no way related to the fine upstanding members of the tractorbynet forum, its owner, or moderators
Insh Allah, Mohammed.
leonZ
