Slobber Tube Fixed The Right Way!

[Pete Masterson]

Kurt,

I'd love to see the photos ... you can send 'em to me at
aeonix1@... or post 'em somewhere where I can download them.

You say "weld" in your description. That worries me a bit as I have
no experience as a welder nor do I have any welding equipment.

As for the radiator core, someone on this list had suggested a core
vendor as being "good". I called them and they gave me referrals to
several radiator shops in northern California. (I'm afraid that I no
longer have the vendor's name.)

One of those referrals had an ad in my local yellow pages with a
claim that they did "heavy equipment." After calling and discussing
my situation with the owner, I discovered that he had a contract with
one of our local transit districts to do the radiator work on transit
busses. He showed me a core made for the transit bus that had round
tubes in a staggered pattern through the core rather than the oblong,
semi-rectangular tubes in the standard BB core. He claimed that the
"new" design was more efficient at cooling. He ordered it from the
vendor whose name I can no longer remember.

I was invited to come every day to the shop and view the work that
was being done -- which I did. The radiator shop owner was an avid
RVer, so he even had a 50 amp circuit available to plug in the coach
while his shop was working on it -- in addition, he had a 24 hour
watchman that lived (in a trailer) at the back of the property.

The bill came to about $4000 -- but that included about $1000 work on
the AC system as well as changing out the radiator core. The core
itself was $800 or so (with exchange). Most of the expense was the
labor required to get the old radiator out and then put the new
radiator back in place. Labor rates are typical for the San Francisco
Bay Area (not cheap).

In the (nearly) a year since I had the radiator work done, I haven't
had an overheating incident -- indeed, the water temp rarely goes
above about 180-190. I was thinking about adding a watering system
(as discussed on this list a few weeks ago), but am less likely to
now. The only heating concern I now have is the oil temp seems to run
up to the maximum of the 'safe' range on some steep grades
(especially on a warm afternoon), but the water temperature is still
in the middle of the safe range. This is more of a personal 'heart
burn' problem in that the engine doesn't actually seem to be
overheated, but it sure makes me nervous.

Pete Masterson
'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42
El Sobrante CA
aeonix1@...



On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:07 PM, bumpersbird wrote:

>
> I got my Racor CCV6000 with the hose kit from Shurst Corp. 4Wright
> St. New Bedford Mass. 02740 508-999-3261. It was about $380.00
> with shipping more or less. All the other sources I checked wanted a
> few hundred more! Shurst sells a lot of Marine products I found them
> on e-bay, their selling name is 4land4sea and they have 100% feedback.
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