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Subject:Re: What to soak radiator in to dissolve slime
From:Mark Dearing
Date:Sat, 15 May 2010 13:08:59 EDT

In a message dated 5/15/2010 1:05:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
marcsayer@HUGHES.NET writes:

Best  solution (sorry bad pun) for a safe and effective cleaning is to
take it to  a radiator shop and have them rod it out. They will
chemically and  mechanically clean it and can tell you if the core is
good or not.

That does not work on the  newer radiators.  All that will happen  is that
they will fall apart trying to do this  AMHIK   I have  seen subie Radiators
that came back looking like they had expoded   later  mark d