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Excuse me for this... But fùcking baßtard car... You won't believe how lucky I was just then.....

I was just stood there in front of the radiator looking at the cracks in the top thinking I'll post this up on the farm....my arm didn't get away so well though...

Ouch!
That's the trouble with Plastics/resins, when they go, they just "GO".
I had the top-hose spigot just "snap" off the rad on my old Merc in the same manner. Luckily I was safely inside the car looking through the cloud of steam, not fending it off with my forearm.
Hope you both get patched up pronto.

Yep rads do that now and again. Have one in the garage with exactly the same problem.

That a Nissens rad?

I have had 2 go, I now have an all metal one in the project car. I will be fitting a GEMS V8 RAD when the one in my daily driver goes again but a metal version.
Plastic is not up to the expansion and contraction that occurs with the temperature changes.
Never work with bare arms.

My face was 30cm in front of it just before it happened.... I have to go to the hospital... I'm changing my fùcking name..

And buying a lottery ticket...

Mark Piercy said:

My face was 30cm in front of it just before it happened.... I have to go to the hospital... I'm changing my fùcking name..

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That big black beard would have saved you

Rather an arm than an eye! Go get it checked out dude, it's not just water in there that burned you. My granny would have cut a spud in half and held it on there, something to do with the starch?
Good warning to us all that even following safety procedure you are only so safe

Where are the shroud and fan?

wammers said:

Where are the shroud and fan?

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Turin?

myfirstl322 said:

Turin?

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That's a fake anyway.

wammers said:

That's a fake anyway.

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It's got a wash label.

myfirstl322 said:

It's got a wash label.

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Yep to hot and would wash the paint off.

myfirstl322 said:

Turin?

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Turin? Wash paint off?

Damn it.. 2nd degree burn to my forearm and seven days off work...
The fan and shroud have been replaced with a large diameter electric fan and dedicated shroud. .

Mark Piercy said:

Turin? Wash paint off?

Damn it.. 2nd degree burn to my forearm and seven days off work...
The fan and shroud have been replaced with a large diameter electric fan and dedicated shroud. .

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Not sure what kind of work you do, but 7 days?

Mark Piercy said:

Turin? Wash paint off?

Damn it.. 2nd degree burn to my forearm and seven days off work...
The fan and shroud have been replaced with a large diameter electric fan and dedicated shroud. .

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Was the fan running when the rad popped?

myfirstl322 said:

Not sure what kind of work you do, but 7 days?

Poof.

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Self employed mechanic at my own garage at home
I have to fill in paperwork and keep some of it and send the rest of it to myself...

wammers said:

Was the fan running when the rad popped?

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All sat quite happily ticking over and no fan at that point. I'll check the electric thermostat.
I had no concerns about an overheat..

Mark Piercy said:

Self employed mechanic at my own garage at home
I have to fill in paperwork and keep some of it and send the rest of it to myself...


All sat quite happily ticking over and no fan at that point. I'll check the electric thermostat.
I had no concerns about an overheat..

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Had you been driving it then stopped and left it idling or was it just idling for a while after start up?

wammers said:

Had you been driving it then stopped and left it idling or was it just idling for a while after start up?

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I had done a twenty minutes drive,
parked outside the garage, turned it off,
Restarted 5 minutes later and it sat idling while I checked around the engine bay.
The whole length of the radiator was cracked both sides along the top ridge.