I can’t believe you chose this frivolous job over installing that fancy hatch vent you recently acquired 😁. Can’t wait to check at your car at the show tomorrow.

9 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

What do you think @Mark Maras , Raisin Bran or Chex?

Im in good company!!

Did you get home ok?

So I'm home. The bottom line is that the car fared better than I did. Remember in the beginning, I was worried about two things... My radiator and my back? Well the radiator didn't get any worse, but my back did. By halfway through the day at the people's choice show, I was hurting. I'll survive, but it's unpleasant.

The radiator... I had talked to a couple people about the troubles I was having and they put it out on the Z network that I was looking for a radiator to get me home. Well as a result of that networking, there was a guy coming to the people's choice show that was going to bring me a radiator. We found eachother at the show, and I snagged a rad. He wasn't sure of the condition, but was optimistic about it. Said it looked good, and as far as he knew, it was in good shape.

That night, @madkaw and I swapped radiators after the banquet. Out in the parking lot, draining the fluid, pulling mine out and tossing in the replacement. Now remember that my back is pretty much shot at this point, so when I say "we changed the radiator", I really mean "he changed the radiator".

So when he wasn't looking, I snapped a pic of madkaw working on my car:

Bottom line? We had to do the job twice, cause the replacement rad I got from the guy at the show leaked horribly and wouldn't hold coolant. Sigh.

So, we drained again and put my original back in. It holds coolant fine, but has a couple clogged tubes. I'll just have to watch the temps on the way home and adjust my speeds and load accordingly. My original radiator works fine until I'm going up a long hill on the interstate at 70 on a hot day. Thankfully as I drove north, the ambient temps dropped some and I was much better off. By the time I got to Maryland, the temps had dropped enough that I was able to maintain 70-75 on the interstates without worry.

Thanks to everyone along the way that helped with the trip and glad for the chance to meet some of the forum guys!!

@madkaw @Ninjaneer11 @zed2 @Parman @inline6

I present to you, road weary from about 2000 miles of adventure... The OG:

Hi Bruce! I am glad you made it home ok. Relax, maybe get some back massage?

@Captain Obvious Curious, once your back gets rested what are your plans for the car now that it has pretty much proven itself as road worthy?

Glad to hear you made it home and the radiator didn't become a bigger problem. Glad we got to connect last week! Planning to get the cooling sorted so you can drive it to Pheonix next year? It's only like 2,500 miles haha.

2 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

I present to you, road weary from about 2000 miles of adventure... The OG:

Does that help your back or make it worse?

The color more than anything but it does give you another leg to stand on.