How to find a radiator leak with this Custom DIY testing tool adaptor. Free tool giveaway coming!

If you hit that subscribe button, that notification bell, you're going to be missing out on videos and free prizes and raffles we have coming up. We'll see something cool. I got a radiator. I was having a hard time finding a really small pinhole leak. So I'll show you what I did. I thought I'd show you how I'm going to make this tool or whatnot. I'm just going to take a valve stem. I don't necessarily need the valve stem in there if I'm going to supply a constant pressure. But if I wanted to, uh, let's say, pump up this plug to the 16 PSI and then just walk away and not have to rely on leaving like an, an airline hooked up to it. I think that might be cool. So as of right now, then that would work on some, like some really, really hard to find slow leak or something. But I'm going to go ahead and make this with a valve, uh, a tire valve stem. This is just out of a tube that, uh, it was a junk tube I cut apart. And if I want, I can always take that center core out and then put a hose or rubber blow gun or something on this. So I just took the same tube, made a couple little gaskets for top and bottom. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it yet. I'm thinking of a mounting it through here because it's already hollow. And then I could squeeze this around the edge of that, uh, radiator, uh, lose a little bit of flexibility on sizing. So I was kind of thinking about this tapered plug to where then I could just use a small piece of radiator hose clamp to the nipple on the radiator and then the side on the tool. And because of that range, it might give me a little more flexibility of the tool. So I don't know, I'm going to figure it out, but this is how it's going to come together. Like I said, so that I can put air on it, plug up the radiator and test it. Let's just look at the radiator real quick so you can see what I'm talking about. So obviously I already got this side plugged. I think I'm leaking somewhere in here. This is where I'm gonna put my tool and whether I use the little Mighty Vac and just manually pump it up to 16 PSI or I could take and use a blow gun on a regulator and just send constant 16 PSI that way. Realistically, more I think about it, it's going to be better to go ahead, leave the valve core in. I could blast 16 PSI to it and walk away or I could pump 16 PSI and I can let it sit and just look for the leak. Now, if it's a really fast leak, that's going to be more attractive because I don't have to pump and I can just constantly supply and then I'd want to take, um, no, I could leave, actually I could leave the valve core in there. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I think that's what I'm gonna do. That's what I'm gonna do. Glad I used the air tube. Let's make this. Okay, here we are. We're all set up. We got one side plugged. We've got some test water to make it bubble to really show it. And then I've got my valve core on here. I've tested this. So this is actually pretty cool because I can go ahead here and put this on here and then control it with just this tire gauge. Okay, so we got, we got air pumped in there and then what I can do and show you, get in there and actually see right where it is somewhere in between those pins right there. I can actually even still fill it. I'm really happy with my tool though. Let's see if the tools leaking. You have tools leaking too. Look at that. Let me show you how I fixed that leak. More bubbles. The washer helped. God dang it. It's a pretty cool way to positively identify, uh, where a leak is so I can quit wasting time on anything else. All right friends, there you have it. Uh, just a little update on what's coming up. Uh, we got a MightyVac sponsored the channel and we've got a bunch of their different cooling system tools for automotive and motorcycle applications. Obviously starting with a motorcycle, but the cool thing is we are also going to be able to give one away to a member. So we've got a contest going right now, uh, for a free tool giveaway. We already got one lined up for the next one. And, uh, I did a full video beginning to end of the diagnostic process to find coolant leaks on this RC 51. And I thought we were going to get lucky with some, uh, hoses got really close. But the thing is, once we fix one leak, another one developed, once we fixed another one, then this showed its ugly head. So the only way to do it is to do it right. But these MightyVac tools, uh, this is a really awesome priced for the do-it-yourselfer. Uh, we do have the, um, automotive one as well, uh, which is more traditional. I'm used to using, but this thing is freaking awesome because it comes with all the adapters to not only do, uh, the, the system on the motorcycle, but check this out. It also comes ready to go with the adapter to do caps. So I'm going to be showing you how to actually test caps. It worked out really well. This one had a bad one. So between, uh, think of everything that's getting fixed on this motorcycle. So bad cap meant that it wasn't allowing to put the pressure in the system to let the antifreeze do the job it needs to do. RC 51s are like known for overheating as well, especially in slow traffic conditions. So we had a cap that didn't work, which lowered the boiling point of the coolant. We have an empty reservoir, uh, and I'll show you how I even clean this in the ultrasonic and vapor blaster. That thing was nasty, but empty. The radiator was low. It wasn't by any means empty. So fortunately the owner caught this at a good time and decided, Hey, I need to park this thing and need to fix it. The motorcycle may seem significantly, uh, tore down right now too. It's, it's just the way this needs to happen. Technically you can perform the tests with the lowers still on, but you do have to take the upper off, which is kind of backwards to most motorcycles. Usually you're taking the lowers off and then the upper. So a really important for us thinking about reminding you, follow the service menu so you don't waste a lot of time. So once we did the test, we discovered we needed to tear more body work off to keep going. We're going to talk about all the ins and outs of how to properly test, uh, for coolant leaks, not only test on the motorcycle, but also I do some really cool tricks and tips on how to test the tool. Uh, when I do get this thing back together, I have one other tool I got here recently that I'm going to be trying out and it's the spillless funnel, they call it. So we got cool stuff, uh, going on, coming up, all that, been busy, uh, rocking and rolling. There's a lot going on in, uh, in the shop here at how to wrench only in here on the weekends now. So, so you saw all these tools on the bench and you just couldn't help yourself. You're like, I want a little closeup. I want to know what's going on there. So this one I've, I've never used in my life. It's an evacuation, air evacuation kits. Super, super stoked to check this out. The truth, I haven't even opened it. So why don't we just do a little sneak peek? Um, read about this a lot over the years in the automotive industry as being a pretty popular, uh, procedure, like I said, on the auto side. So typically on the motorcycles, we leave the cap off, flip the heck out of the throttle, uh, burp all the air out that way. And, uh, auto people always made a big deal about that. Like I said, the free giveaway one, this one here is a bunch of different adapters for numerous different domestic and Asian cars. So you're going to take this kit. This is like the one that I called the traditional one earlier where, uh, you have just the cylinder that you're going to pump up. It's, I'm sure a lot faster than the little handheld one. Um, but this is more for the pro that's doing this type of testing all the time. And then you can see that there's a quick release fitting, um, to attach up to the different caps, which are all these caps as well on the motorcycle one. Uh, Hey, you're, you're, you're paying, you give what you pay for type thing. So this one, it like says more, what I would call the do it yourself-er and you have to unthread this and take this hose and then rethread it on here. No big deal, not the end of the world, but for the pro doing it day in and day out, that's why you would go to, um, a kit like this. And then what do we got here? This one here, you know what? That is just a bigger version of the handheld one more do it yourself-er that you could do a bunch of different automotive applications. Now, once again, these are all going to be a price point, you know, deal, right? So that's what I always used to have to have test caps. Um, but this is way cool. So we have just Japanese motorcycles, a do it yourself automotive kit, a professional kit, a bunch of different adapters and that cool evac, um, air evacuation kit. So we, we got some stuff to learn too. It's going to be pretty cool. Uh, the RC 51 turned out to be a great project for this because like I said, once we fix one leak, more and more showed up. And then, um, the fact that the, the, this video where I made this tool for this adapter here was just simply because it was being crazy, crazy small. Now you may have seen a video, which coincidentally I did years ago, probably like 10 years ago. If we have old fans of the channel where I showed how you could find a coolant leaks with the good old fashioned. Let's see if I have any out here. I'm looking for baby powder or I'm looking for my little can of aerosol athletes foot powder and might be out on a bench. Oh wait, I got it. Nope, that's not it. Anyway, another way that you can do it is clean the suspected area really well. And then, uh, you can make it really messy, like an OVO and get baby powder all over the place. And then when you put the tester on there and you pressurize it, uh, the baby powder from that, you know, green or pinky antifreeze or whatnot will really show itself by getting wet. And that's a way for you to, to pinpoint exactly where to, I guess the point of what I'm getting at is there a lot of different ways to tackle this job. And, uh, the, the tools sure make it really easy and there's some stuff that's not included in the kit. And that is knowledge and a bucket of water and some soapy water. Anyway, I'm just having some fun. So thought I'd throw us a little bit in at the end of the video. We're looking forward to doing some, uh, some videos here for MightyVac. So stay tuned. You hit that subscribe button yet? Better. Uh, appreciate everything you do for being a subscriber to the channel, especially the members that have joined and found that as a way to support the channel. 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