<\/a><\/p>\n A radiator works by flowing the coolant through 100s of small fins that have a massive surface area, allowing air to lower the temperature. Unfortunately, this also allows a huge amount of sand to get stuck, as illustrated by the photo above.<\/p>\n After rinsing out all the sand it was clear there was reasonable amount of damage, so we decided to get it pressure tested.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Seattle Radiator Works<\/a> carried out a pressure test for us and advised us to get both the radiator and heater core re-cored. They did a fantastic job, and even repainted the radiator, which saved me another job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A radiator works by flowing the coolant through 100s of small fins that have a massive surface area, allowing air to lower the temperature. Unfortunately, this also allows a huge… Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5873,"parent":4559,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_meta":"","nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[369,289],"tags":[316,314,319,346],"class_list":["post-5314","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-to-review","category-the-build","tag-coolant","tag-cummins-6bt-59l-12v","tag-radiator","tag-seattle-radiator"],"acf":{"timeline-date":null,"timeline-title":"","timeline-blurb":"","timeline-render":false},"pgc_meta":"","yoast_head":"\n