I apologize if one of the photos appears upside-down, it does not on the device that I used to take the photo, but it does on the preview of my upload here.
Vehicle is a 1985 Chevy K5 Blazer. It is not a daily driver. I bumped up against the coolant overflow tube connector (for lack of a better term) with just enough force to break it off the neck of the radiator. It came from the little hole you can see directly below the radiator cap. I tried to JB Weld it back into place, but the location is so awkward that I couldn't get a clamp of any size in there to hold it while the JB Weld cures. I then went to the hardware store and got a male-to-male fitting that fit into both the overflow tube and the hole, however once again I can't come up with a way to hold it in the hole while adhesive or JB Weld cures/hardens.
The depth of the hole under the radiator cap is no more than 3mm or so, which is barely anything for adhesive/JB Weld to grab onto anyhow.
Any ideas? My redneck neighbor-- albeit he's a handyman-- says just ignore it and watch the temperature gauge, but I'd like more input than that!
Vehicle is a 1985 Chevy K5 Blazer. It is not a daily driver. I bumped up against the coolant overflow tube connector (for lack of a better term) with just enough force to break it off the neck of the radiator. It came from the little hole you can see directly below the radiator cap. I tried to JB Weld it back into place, but the location is so awkward that I couldn't get a clamp of any size in there to hold it while the JB Weld cures. I then went to the hardware store and got a male-to-male fitting that fit into both the overflow tube and the hole, however once again I can't come up with a way to hold it in the hole while adhesive or JB Weld cures/hardens.
The depth of the hole under the radiator cap is no more than 3mm or so, which is barely anything for adhesive/JB Weld to grab onto anyhow.
Any ideas? My redneck neighbor-- albeit he's a handyman-- says just ignore it and watch the temperature gauge, but I'd like more input than that!