anyone heard of this product?

[rcnugget]

Hey guys my car sprang a tiny radiator leak today and I need it to get me through another week and a bit before I get paid ( monthly pay sucks )

Back in nz we used to have this product we called "black cubes" I have no idea what they were called but they looked like OXO Cubes and used to drop them in the radiator and did pretty well for short term radiator / head gasket fixes.

I went to repco today to try and find one and they looked at me as if I was crazy.

Does anyone know what these are called and where to get them, or as a side note any other good temp fixes for radiator leaks??? please dont say a cracked egg lol

[88GreenVN]

Called bars leak or something like that.

[TVR-190]

repco sells plenty of those types of things, not the cubes your talking about but plenty of liquids that do the same job.

[VrWagz1]

^^^yeah whats so special about the cubes, theres a hundred other products out there to use.
Now dont quote me on this as its only somthing i remeber somone telling me ages ago and it may not be true. "Try not to get the ones with the dissolvable tablet things in it as it can clog your radiator permanently. Theres another type that is made from like grated palm leaf stuff and it just blocks holes temporarily and will flush out later."

Maybe somone can varify that as iv never needed to use stop leak and iv only seen the tablet looking ones myself.

[VS_Pete_1]

Repco.
Sorry can`t remember name. It looks like Bronze metallic paint when you shake the bottle.
I haven`t used it am told it is very good.
Good luck.

[TVR-190]

Repco.
Sorry can`t remember name. It looks like Bronze metallic paint when you shake the bottle.
I haven`t used it am told it is very good.
Good luck.

Ive used it, worked in my lexcen for about 4 months

[Lumps of cheese]

Black pepper does a short term fix too apparently.

[adamc11]

Black pepper does a short term fix too apparently.

As does cracking an egg into your radiator.

[apoc585]

ive been told not to use bars leaks thing. i used a liquid one i picked up from a bp servo since my radiator was spittin stuff everywhere and i needed a fix asap and it worked a treat. im pretty sure it was that bronze stuff

[VS_Pete_1]

Just back from repco.
The name is CARGO METALLIC SEAL-UP $10 at Enoggera store

[rcnugget]

ah cheers yep found some of the cargo stuff seems to of worked perfectly

[the_random_hero]

Chemiweld is pretty good stuff, but it's no total fix.

[(ONE★LOVE)]

gooooooooooooooooooooood

[DANNY8]

I tried the egg trick in my old van.....didn't work tho, I think the hole was a tad too big.