Hi I'm Karl Erik's we're out here at Tier one group again we're with Chad Morman
the head driving instructor and you know you see it in the movies all the time
there's a bullet hole in the radiator and they get out and they they kind of
fiddle with it a little bit and then somebody stands up they pee in the
radiator and off they drive yeah can you patch off bullet hole in the radiator?
Yeah, you can but there's just a little bit more to it. Chad you want to take us through it?
Sure, well one of the biggest issues was actually patching the holes
in the radiator is getting to it is it on the front side is it on the back side
is it all the way through a lot of times I might have to rip the plastic grille
off the front of my vehicle to actually get to it or trying to mingle my hands
down behind the fence it does take a little bit of time okay we've all heard
the stories and saw the videos and shows of hey
eggs and putting pepper down in it and everything like that yes it does work
but this is a little bit better fix than it so we have a radiator set up
here it's already taken out so you can kind of get a little cleaner shot of it
they actually are three AK rounds that were shot through this if you look over
here one of them it actually went between the rows so these lines that run
all the way across on the rows the in between those rows are the actual fence
so we can see it actually went between the roads and actually didn't hit
anything which is actually good for you if this didn't happen to you this one
came in and actually messed up two of the rows on the top and bottom and this
is the exit of one of the another one and it actually messed up a lot more of
them so this is actually the one we're going to be fixing all right now Chad
when you talk about that these these horizontal lines that look a little bit
thicker those are not just lines of metal those are actual flat tubes that
are carrying the flow right that's where the fluid is flowing through to get them
cooled back off before anybody these vertical fins in between those flat
tubes they have no fluid in them at all that just anticipated ones that are in
between this to dissipate heat like you said awesome
awesome alright so we're going to go ahead that's a big hole let's patch it
alright so we're going to go ahead and lay it down normally you'll see a lot of
people doing it with some stuff they may not have out or downrange we were
actually going to do it with a Leatherman okay so if you come in what
we actually need to do is we're actually going to crimp off the roads that the
fluid go in so I need to clear out and rip out some of the fins on each one and
then I'm actually going to take the row and start crimping it and rolling it up
on itself so we'll go ahead and start to do that now
they tear up fairly easy
you want to make sure you're getting all the way through the radiator pull it
back to make sure you got enough room to work with
that one's not all the way cut
that row is not yet so get down in there cut it completely across all right so
you would essentially do the same thing to the other side but from there all I'm
going to do is start folding it over on itself like you would kind of do an
empty tube of toothpaste
making sure you get it good and crimped all the way down and you don't want to
do just one roll you'll put a couple of them into it
so there's two rolls on
that row from there if I'm still worried about it losing a lot of liquid or
cooling out of it then that's what I could go to get some of my quick drying
epoxy my jb weld or something that you should probably still be carrying
downrange if you're not you should be carrying it down there not just for this
application but other applications
Dp you like JB welds or other products you prefer?
The quick drying epoxy I mean it can be jb weld it could be another
name brand but I'm typically after stuff it's going to dry a lot quicker then
take a couple hours okay alright so you would now clear out the other side do
the same on the other side same thing would be done on the other side I took
basically how radiator works is that the fluid comes in on this side this plastic
side and all that fluid from this pipe travels through these flattened tubes
all of them dissipates all the heat comes over here goes back up through
that hose all we're doing is rolling off just that we're just blocking the ones
where that bullet hole was we losing a little bit of effect yeah but it's that
fluid can still flow through the rest of the radiator this vehicle can be fully
functional by him just simply using his Leatherman right there patching it
can be quickly done once you get access to it this vehicles back off back out
ready to get back on the road all right anything else you want to add
no sir gents you watch this video it is it really as easy as using your
Leatherman yes and no yes it can be for pro that's done it a bunch of times all
right but you just watching this video ain't going to help you a lick alright
you won't be a one of those internet ninjas that just watches this stuff
that's fine okay you can tell your buddies how awesome you are but at the
moment of truth when you're out elk hunting and there's snow coming down or
whatever you're out in the middle of the desert and you want to stick through the
middle of your radiator that is not the time to be
learning how to fix your different repairs on your vehicle need to learn
how to do this from a pro you come down to tier one group with sign you up for
one of our courses you'll train with the best he's going to have every student do
this you're not just going to be watching one person do it you're going
to get your hands on you're going to actually learn how to do this great
great great quick class Chad's awesome he's got lots of other mad skills to
teach us down the road
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