Plastic for cooling sucks.

Plastic strikes again
On my 96 Dakota 4wd this time.
Last week I noticed puddles in the very front of the engine compartment, snow on the ground made it easier to spot, shortly after I'd shut it off
Twice last week I discovered my reserve bottle almost empty. I waited til yesterday to CK it out because of the holiday, knowing nobody would be open and I didn't have to go anywhere anyway.
I put my pressure tester on it and I didn't even get to pump it up to 7 psi and yup, it was leaking at the seam between aluminum and plastic....
I had bought that radiator new in 2016.
Good thing for lifetime warranty.
I actually still had the radiator out of the 92 Dakota I used to have, up in the garage attic// so I put that one in the 96. I'd also replaced that radiator that was in the 92, while I owned "that" Dakota// so that radiator doesn't have a whole lot of miles on it either. . I then went back to O'Reilly's, and the clerk looked it up and found out when I originally bought the one that was in my 96. So I have a replacement that is supposed to be here (at the local O'Reilly's anyway) tomorrow.

The really screwy part? I paid $114 for that now leaky radiator, back in 2016. Now? That same damn radiator now costs $248!!!!! Glad I ain't having to pay that for it. I'll stick the new one that's coming tomorrow, back up in the attic/ as I hope to keep this Dakota til the wheels fall off of it.