Nice to see those images. Thanks for posting them.
I can see how that USB scope would be useful... in the right hands.

I assume this radiator has metal tanks.

When I inspected inside an '85 WBX radiator, there wasn't a whole lot of
debris, what not.

a few images here

https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/19WBXRadiatorOpenedUp#5377715571722535154

On 7/13/16, Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I bought the USB endoscope I mentioned in the previous post. $27 on Amazon.
> (Cheaper on ebay, but would take a month to ship from China)
> The endoscope / borescope was quite handy, letting me look inside the
> radiator through the fan switch thermostat and in/outlets.
>
> No crud or scaling was to be seen in the radiator, but as I had expected
> from the tests I did before (see previous post) coolant was passing directly
> between the hot and cold sides. Turns out the baffle separating the hot and
> cold half in the passenger side tank was broken. My guess is that the
> interior soldering of the baffle was weakened when the side tank was
> soldered on from the outside. Then many cycles of flexing the poorly
> attached brass baffle finally broke a piece off.
> I wonder if I can plug this hole w/o taking the radiator out. E.g. with
> epoxy putty or high temp silicone.
>
> Pictures on:https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~jag/Pictures/VanagonDRad/

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