08 Mar 2008 12:28:38 | Jenny McLane
Your car radiator is the primary cooling mechanism for your
engine. Parts train's Radiators are a simple and elegant
solution to the need for engine cooling. Parts train's Radiators
are mostly made of aluminum. Light and strong, aluminum is great
for making radiators. It is the material of choice for most of
today’s radiators. Light and intelligently designed, aluminum
radiators are standard on many of today’s new cars and trucks.
A small leak on your Radiator can be indicating a larger
problem. A cooling system that runs low too often is less
efficient and you can damage your cooling system by letting the
coolant level get too low. Too little coolant flow can be bad,
but at normal and high operating temperatures, the rate at which
coolant moves through the radiator does not change the amount of
heat that is dissipated by the cooling cores. The amount of
cooling will not be reduced even when the mean temperature of
the coolant rises and flows faster.
Many cheap coolants do not have the corrosion protection, PH
balancing, or sediment prevention that the top-quality coolants
do. These low quality coolants do not have the same additives of
name brand coolants. To help your engine stay cooler, rev up
your engine slightly when you are overheating in traffic to help
push more air across the cooling cores and more coolant through
the engine.
All water-cooled radiators have an automatically controlled
electric fan on the radiator. The way the system is supposed to
work is that, after the engine is started, the thermostat on the
engine stays closed until the coolant temperature at the ENGINE
reaches 87C (189F) degrees. It is the responsibility of the
Radiator to keep the coolant temperature from running too high.
However, if the temperature is too high it is not necessarily
the radiator.
A poor radiator cap will not last as long or stay properly
calibrated, and either open at too low or two high a pressure.
Make sure your radiator cap is the proper one for your cooling
system. Higher pressure means a higher boiling point, which
means more efficient cooling. A new radiator cap is usually all
that is required for this (but don’t over pressurize your
radiator cores and wreck the whole system).
Most Radiators' cooling system failures arise from poor radiator
maintenance. Many radiator problems can be prevented with
regular maintenance and periodic professional inspections of you
car radiator and cooling system. The most common radiator
problems are: leaky fittings or seams, fin deterioration and
bond failure, electrolysis, cracked tank, and fan damage.
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Radiators are reasonably priced and the company makes sure they
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With only a few clicks, visit
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About Author :
Jenny McLane is a 36 year old native of Iowa and has a knack for
research on cars and anything and everything about it. She works
full time as a Market Analyst for one of the leading car parts
suppliers in the country today.