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Aluminum coolant elbow

Swiggles said:
Shipping at rockauto was $1.24 for me. They fixed the shipping cost shortly after the first few orders.
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It's not fixed on my end either. They want $10+ for shipping mine.
And I emailed them, they said they checked the weight and everything and it must be accurate, I should make sure I don't order from multiple warehouses etc etc. I'm like fools I only had the one damn item lol.

I'm wondering if it would be worth it to order it and ship to your house swiggle. And you ship em to me? If you're okay with that lol. I wonder if it'd be cheaper...
 


Lol at that point you might save $5 but we can do that if you want. I can get a group buy going if people want to pm about it.
 
Brando I might be making an order thru RA for repair parts. I might get these too. I can get 2 sets that way when you drive up to Michigan to help me with my car you get a set. ;)
 


Anyone install these yet? I've bought mine but haven't installed them. Basically just seeing how long my current ones last. Was wondering if anyone installed them and how they seem to work so far.
 
They work exactly like plastic at the moment. The question is... long term corrosion and potentially breaking timing cover.
 
I have mine sitting in my desk. Ordered them when I realized my brand new plastic ones were leaking... O rings?
 


Let's bring this back up and toss a little new info in here.

Billy aka 02GPinNY came in for a LIM gasket swap this Saturday. He previously had a leak at the elbows and they were replaced. Guy that did the work used a little RTV on them and the result was broken aluminum elbow trying to get it apart.
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Didn't use a crazy amount of force to do this. Merely trying to break it free, this is the result of a little RTV. I'll assume a bit of corrosion will do the same. It will be harder to crack/dig this out with a pick etc.
 
He's only had the car a couple months. I broke it...because I refused to let the lower one snap the timing cover. That little bit of RTV was enough to keep it from coming out though. Much like corrosion should.

Wasn't an issue to me. I had just handed Billy a spare tensioner bracket to have, he handed it back and it went on. No worries..we didn't clean that RTV. :th_thumbsup-wink: And I had a spare set of metal elbows on the shelf.
 
someone just drill/tap fittings into there and run a soft line from each port. never deal with the elbows again.
 


Jomamma said:
Good thing my lower elbow is cast into my alternator bracket.

At least that cant break.
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you and i have the worst alt bracket out there, we have more of a chance breaking the timing cover with the cast elbow.


im with bio, one dumb set up, why not tap the cover and lim and put a elbow and hose right the heater core?
 
Don't you guys remember...oh..right W body guys. You don't know anything pre97 3800 wise.

Series 1's had a nipple just drilled with a fitting and hose. GM used a friggin plastic like fitting. They used to crack off and blow coolant everywhere. Just like the 4.3L and 5.7L did.
 
a straight brass fitting in each port with a ~30psi rated piece of tubing with some hose clamps would literally last forever and you could easily reuse it when you take things apart.
 
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