question on behalf of my cousin


he has a 96 jeep Cherokee, manual trans he uses as a beater


he was out in a field and he blew a radiator hose off


the jeep ended up overheating. He ended up getting it home and put a new hose on it


when he starts it up now, he says on the passenger side of the radiator about halfway down, there is a 1 inch nipple coming out of the radiator


coolant will come out of there once the jeep stars getting warm


I have never had this issue, but he would like to know what the nipple is for and if he can plug it some how?


I have never had a jeep overheat to this point and never seen this on a radiator at all


any help would be great guys....I think without seeing it his radiator took a crap on him being 18 years old....

 

I believe what he is seeing is the radiator drain port. Those things are know to go bad and leak. I am not sure what you can do to stop it so maybe someone else will chime in.

 

Is this what he is talking about? If so, a quick google search tells me it can be replaced and that its probably just a bad o-ring.

 

That's probably what he's seeing.

 

I think what he is seeing is the transmission cooler nipple,It must be damaged(cooler).
It is a manual on his Jeep.

 

Trans cooler lines are on the drivers side.

 

yes guys its a manual trans, so no cooler lines


can it be fixed or is the radiator shot? is there a oring behind it like mentioned earlier?

 

Most after market radiators do have the hose connections for the trans line but not used for the manual trans. I bet that it's leaking around the nut that the hose would connect to if it was an auto trans. he can try to us some JB Weld to try to fix it. But a lot of times it will only last for a shot time. He may have to replace the rad to avoid leaks in the near future. He can pick up a stock rad from Auto Zone for around $100 with a lifetime warranty. That's where I got mine and never had a problem with it in the last 5 years.

 

thank you


Ill let him know

 

That is the drain port. They are plastic and threaded, with an o-ring.
Known to fail. I had the plug blow out once, gone. Plugged the port with epoxy putty and it held tight for another 2 years.