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radiator shop tells me that my cooler must have a hole in it and that it would have had nothing to do with him recoring the radiator, I think hes full of it since before I took it to him it never had any trans fluid in it and the car doesnt even have 10 miles on everything.

I will be taking him the radiator in the morning and I'll see if he tries to charge me to make it right, he says he will have to pressure it up. I have also talked to another shop about flushing the trans and that will cost $140.



Just for info, I think a quality shop would have caught the leak as a routine matter. I had my '72 radiator recored four years ago. I took it in because the filler neck was cracked at the rim. Shop owner does the radiators himself and lets his employees do the Air con work. He showed me where the trans cooler tube running through the lower tank was cracked and leaking. I never had any issues with the trans level going down or the cooling sys level going up, but I took the car to a shop and had the trans fluid replaced as a precaution. Recored, replaced filler neck and trans cooler tube. Works good four years later, 230,000 miles now.