How To Use Radiator Pressure Tester. Test Your Cooling System for Leaks.
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- In this video we are showing how to use a Radiator System Tester on your cooling system to check for leaks. Thanks for watching. AdeptApe@yahoo.com on PayPal.
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Thanks for watching the video. Pretty simple tool to use and figured some people have not heard of them. Amazon Affiliate Links for tools in the video:
Radiator Pressure Tester Kit: amzn.to/3QGBumn
Airlift Cooling System Vacuum Filling System: amzn.to/3D9AlPu
Thank you for the clear and simple explanation on how to do a pressure test. Been having problems with 2003 Ford Expedition and it’s driving me nuts. I figured this was a logical step but wasn’t sure how. I appreciate your advice.
Enjoyed this, shorter format very much. Thank you. Wouldn’t want it all the time, particularly when you’re doing a complicated procedure but it worked out well for this!
I very much enjoy any video you kick out. The fact that you have increased the frequency of your videos is greatly appreciated. Thanks for the quality, lack of childish phrases, and overall fantastic content. Please keep them coming. The longer the better but I enjoy everything!! Cheers, Dan
Love getting home from work, cracking a beer and seeing Josh has uploaded a new video. Nothing better
Great video! It’s just like the way a skirt should be, just long enough to cover things, but short enough to make it interesting!
We appreciate your time. Love from Greeley Colorado.
Nice to see I’m not the only one with the ever popular, hose clamps when it gets cold, leaking.
Thanks for sharing I remember my old 74 ford the rad started leaking and I cracked the cap and put silicone in the fins over the leak and let it setup it worked great as long as I left the cap loose made it to work and back for two weeks just long enough for me to save up enough to replace it but that was back in the 90s when life seemed easier lol thanks for sharing buddy
Yes I did enjoy the shorter video. Keep the good stuff coming.
Those Kodiak blowers are cool. There are a pair of them at McMurdo Station Antarctica with 3406's on them. Nice simple piece to work on. And a monster at moving snow.
Great helpful information on this kit even tho it’s older was wondering how it would work correctly thanks
As always informative. I’ve seen my mechanic use one those more than once. I think his is a snap on one. Funny tho he has Matco and snap on tools in his box.
Nicely done!
I have a strange one with a Cat 3126b (heui) marine engine. Coolant stopped expanding into the plastic recovery tank (level remained constant at the 'Cold' level) Engine runs fine. Doesn't overheat. Heat exchanger pressure tested off the boat. Entire system pressure tested at cap (and beyond) psi 13-15 both cold and hot. No loss. No bubbles in coolant but when the engine cools after around 45 mins running, it draws around 1/2 quart from the recovery tank. Ran dye in coolant and no visible external leaks.. Yowzers! Solve this one and you'll be my favourite UA-camr ever. 😁
Damn…did you find the problem yet?
Thank you for the good content brother.
Nice job, useful tool.
Great job bro. 👍
We have a C15 acert at work as a yard truck. Goes thru 2 gallons of coolant everyday ,Right out the exhaust pipe.Smokes the yard up pretty good at times.
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Thanks for sharing it
Take care and have a great weekend with all your family around you
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From Nick Ayivor from London England UK 🇬🇧
Never knew these ran such a low pressure. Usually only see that low for air to water intercoolers on a 2.0L turbo Jeep engine. I'm used to seeing 15-21psi for a engine cooling system.
My dirtbike has a 29lb rad cap
The snow blowers are pretty neat, I would not want to be in front of one. Be safe Sir.
I always find your videos interesting.
Thank you Jim.
I made my own but set it up to use shop air. I'm lazy and hate pumping those things lol. I mainly use it to give the system a quick check before filling it back up after a repair. It sucks when you have a large capacity system and have a leak that makes you drain it all out again. Plus, I built it back when I was making very little money and couldn't afford a tool truck branded one.
Nice
🙏 thanks
Only other thing I would say to check if you can’t find where the coolant is going is your transmission. Seen many trans coolers fail and fill the transmission with coolant
Hey Josh, do you pressure test the rad cap to see if it’s hold any pressure ? Thanks
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If coolant were to leak into the crank case, in a isx 15 Diesel engine, how would it get there?
I had an issue multiple techs couldn't figure out where above 185° my coolant tank completely empties out and below 185° it'd fill right back up with zero loss... turns out when my $15 coolant check valve cracked for the lines going to the heater core in the bunk well it was on back order so the tech put a small pipe to connect the hoses but we had no idea what it was and ever since when my coolant got above 185 it'd drain to the heater core in the bunk... for a while I thought my truck was literally materializing and dematerializing coolant took months to figure it out and track down that check valve and overnight it
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Why does an independently mounted snowblower need an air compressor?
Now you have me thinking about this. I would think if anything, it should have a hydraulic pump, which is more common in these types of machines, but even then, whatever that snow blower attaches to already have a decent hydraulic pump.
Why don't they put a shear key on the air compressor? Yes, it's bad to have an air compressor fail on a truck, but it's worse to have it cause so much collateral damage. Second one I've seen this week...
Maybe stupid but could you possibly do a video on different styles of lifting links, eyes, straps, different things you use and recommend vs not recommend, etc.?
That coolant tank looks familiar. Aeromax??
I love you Josh
Thank you Avocado man.
Had a DD15 one time where the air compressor blew up, the connecting rod punched a hole out and poked a hole in the engine block, only complaint was it wouldn't build air.
I have seen pictures where one engine threw a rod and kicked the starter into the engine next to it cracking the block. I think it was a twin engine setup in a boat
Would a pressure test cause more harm than good?
Can you go back the air bubbles .. I have a hard time understanding the concept there. Ty
Actually you take a pint clear bottle. I remove the radiator cap and put a adapter on radiator and a hose down to a five gallon bucket of water. Run the engine until regulator is open. Fill the bottle with water, put the hose in the bottle and turn it upside down in the five gallon bucket of water. Now the water cannot escape out of the bottle. Time how long it takes compression gases to force the water out of the pint bottle. Forty-five seconds or less, your getting to much air into the cooling system. Usually the air is compression gases from a leak from the combustion chamber into the cooling system. Sometimes it could be the air compressor, ACERT engines pre-cooler, old engines had air operated heater control valves.
As engines age, compression slowly starts leaking into the cooling system. The shunt line helps keep a positive supply on the water pump and helps getting air out of the system.
Well that's not cool, for an air compressor to cause that much damage. What would be the warning signs? It would be too noisy to hear the grinding.
Don’t open the cap when hot….said no flat-rater ever :)