It means you take it to a radiator shop, hand it to them, and
say, "rod this out, please".   :-)

They actually take the rad apart and shove a metal rod thru it to
physically remove the crud.  In my case it was black gooey crud
not white.  

It made a HUGE difference where the temp gauge needle sits.

- Frank

 >On Wed, 24 Aug 1994, David Garth wrote:
 >> I had the same problem. It was cured by rodding-out the radiator. It 
 >
 >What does "rodding out the radiator" mean?
 >Thanks.
 >--
 >Gerry
 >Gerald Skerbitz <gsker@lenti.med.umn.edu> U of MN Med.School.Admin 6-5379
 >

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