Panda (Classic) John Dragon Man's 4x4 Sisley

[Dragon Man]

i dont think i had any / forgot to ask for them :/

 

[VmanC]

i dont think i had any / forgot to ask for them :/

Oh! I thought everyone was there when I was handing them out. There are some left at a pound each, PM me your address if you want some.

 

[Dragon Man]

ohhh i take 2! PM sent

 

[VmanC]

ohhh i take 2! PM sent

Ah, saw this after I read the PM, so it's two.

 

[Dragon Man]

does anyone have one of these:

https://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=29644

i really need one :/ been trying to find a replacement for a while now, to no luck. its some odd size so plumbers fittings will not fit it.

anyone able to assist me on this epic search?

 

[Dragon Man]

ahh guess i dont need this any more. the threads have all stripped out of the radiator side of it so it looks like yet another new radiator i am going to have to buy. well there goes the bull bar painting fund.
another £70 down the drain.

hell if anyone needs a brand new less than a year old 4x4 radiator core then i have one.

 

[VmanC]

ahh guess i dont need this any more. the threads have all stripped out of the radiator side of it so it looks like yet another new radiator i am going to have to buy. well there goes the bull bar painting fund.
another £70 down the drain.

hell if anyone needs a brand new less than a year old 4x4 radiator core then i have one.

You may be able to repair it with something like 'Plastic padding chemical metal'.

 

[Dragon Man]

well my plan was to re-tap it to the next size up.. but again the next size up is a huge size.

sadly its not a standard pipe fitting thread, the threads are quite course on it so it makes it really hard to find anything that will fit it in terms of next size up.

if.. IF i could find another original fitting i would just tigerseal it in. but they are nonexistent :/

 

[VmanC]

well my plan was to re-tap it to the next size up.. but again the next size up is a huge size.

sadly its not a standard pipe fitting thread, the threads are quite course on it so it makes it really hard to find anything that will fit it in terms of next size up.

if.. IF i could find another original fitting i would just tigerseal it in. but they are nonexistent :/

Would an air line fitting like this be about the right size?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-PCL-AIR...Air_Tools_and_Compressors&hash=item27d37cd6d9

 

[panda1408]

Repair the original fitting with chemical metal/araldite/jb weld and then just glue it into the radiator with the same stuff. My heater valve repair with JB weld worked fine.

 

[Dragon Man]

i have been using air fittings to try and fix it

the original one has been snapped off in the picture i took i held it together with blutack.
it has a big split going half way up one side.

to be fair, some time stored off the road would be ok about now. everyone has the idea that my car is the run around car.. i dont like it being seen as that.. not when we have two 13 plate small cars parked on the same drive.

 

[PuntoHowTo]

i really need one :/ been trying to find a replacement for a while now, to no luck. its some odd size so plumbers fittings will not fit it.

anyone able to assist me on this epic search?

I can't see obviously from the pictures what's broken on it but, what's it made out of ? Could it be brazed. Failing that its a fairly simple part to turn on a lathe

 

[Dragon Man]

i have been after a lathe since i first knew what one was.. sux how they cost so much :/

its made out of plastic.. just a sec i get a picture of whats up with it..:

 

[PuntoHowTo]

http://www.aliexpress.com/compare/compare-2-male-hose-adapter.html

 

[Dragon Man]

thanks, but if you look, none of them are the same thread or has long threads like the original. i was thinking i may be able to fix the old one with a bit of brake pipe.

drill the old one out till the pipe fits through it, flare both the ends of the pipe so it wont pull out, tigerseal it in along with the brake pipe. think that would work.

 

[blu73]

may as well have a stab, worse that can happen is it fail and you be in the same place. Some bodges do work well and last so have a crack i say. In the meantime keep looking for replacement

 

[Bartpanda]

Almost the same failure on the fiat regata radiator I've repaired with copper pipe{fuel line} taken from some old carb, and glued it into the hole in the plastic element with thread. Almost the same method You want to use John. Mine repair worked for three years, after that I do not know, I ve sold the car

 

[panda1408]

I would definately use a two part epoxy adhesive rather than tiger seal, not sure it would like the temperature.

 

[JamieK]

i have been after a lathe since i first knew what one was.. sux how they cost so much :/

its made out of plastic.. just a sec i get a picture of whats up with it..:

Hey Dragon Man, I was near my local Fiat/Alfa breakers yesterday so I popped in to see if he had anything. He didn't have anything off hand but he'll keep an eye out while he's going through his drawers etc

I have though in the past had lots of success repairing plastic parts with a soldering iron! You basically just hold the part together and carefully use the heat of the soldering iron to fuse the parts together.
Sometimes if it was thin plastic I had to melt some extra plastic onto the part to make it stronger. If it works for you, you could always add some epoxy to it after for extra strength

 

[pandamaniac]

John
Sorry to tease you, but I have a spare, only thing is the thread is very fine, good news is I also have a radiator it fits to.(4x4 I believe)
I am going to check it at work tomorrow to see what thread it is, but it is parallel and not a tapered pipe thread.
Dave