Plastic in Coolant??

95Cobra302

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96 GT. Changing all the o rings in my oil cooler and noticed just a couple small black plastic pieces in there. Also after I drained my coolant from the radiator and I was dumping it into a container it had some more pieces in there too. Anyone know where they likely came from? It has me stumped.

 

Bullitt347

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My guess is that the radiator has an aluminum core with plastic end tanks.

 

95Cobra302

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Bullitt347 said:

My guess is that the radiator has an aluminum core with plastic end tanks.

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Ok. It's an SVE Aluminum version.

 

95Cobra302

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Is there a plastic float or something in these years coolant expansion tanks? I thought I remember seeing one in mine but not now, it's just open space in there.