Den, I never saw that anywhere but it’s not important as the problem with he front heater core is not that the plastic ends have a problem, but that the aluminum core itself rots away from having bad antifreeze in it for too long a time.  It just corrodes away at the bottom end until it starts seeping antifreeze into the heater box.  Smells really good when you run the front heater !

> On Apr 1, 2016, at 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> wrote:
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> I saw something recently about someone making these in steel with metal ends instead of plastic...
> Sounds like a good long term solution...now to recall where I saw that...hmmm
> Den.

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