{"id":352,"date":"2012-07-11T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-07-11T20:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T10:08:28","slug":"352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Plugging the hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my last post Andrew replied that he has justifiably great faith in Bars Leaks as it&#8217;s held the leaks at bay on his Brush since 1992 which is not a bad recommendation. So I gave it a try although I lacked the intestinal fortitude to go for 5 bottles as suggested. After pouring it in and w<a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193809.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193809.jpg\" alt=\"20120711-193809.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a>aiting for 20 minutes the water was still showing no abatement so I cut my losses and emptied the radiator into a bucket for later and moved onto plan B.<\/p>\n<p>This radiator has a fair bit of plan B already in situ so I felt a little more would not hurt. Plan B is epoxy putty, I have previously used it on the side of the road as a &#8220;get me home&#8221; repair after the fan and the radiator had a spat and although not yet lasting 20 years it&#8217;s showing no signs of failure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193834.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-351 \" title=\"20120711-193834.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193834-300x80.jpg\" alt=\"Water weld\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193834-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193834-1024x274.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120711-193834.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily this is all happening on the back of the radiator so maybe I will do an upgrade and paint the putty black just in case a purist looks under the bonnet. Although as the product used is in French I can only assume it&#8217;s OEM Darracq.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_351\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 160px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my last post Andrew replied that he has justifiably great faith in Bars Leaks as it&#8217;s held the leaks at bay on his Brush since 1992 which is not a bad recommendation. So I gave it a try although &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/?p=352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darracq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carcrank.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}