Broken petcock on radiator

sportscars

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While flushing my radiator today in preperation for some high speed driving this weekend I F'ed up my drain. When I tightened it up it was still leaking a bit from the drain so I unscrewed it and tried again. Same leak. Did it again but this time I guess I tightened it too much. I broke one of the plastic "wings" on the plug. I got a pair of channel locks and managed to break the other one! Its not coming out now! Now I'm screwed. I dont have the time or the money to replace the radiator so I was wondering if I could use JBWeld (or similar) to plug the drain?

What do you think???
 

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JB weld could work, have to make sure the area is clean of coolant though or it may not stick to well. Ive used it just once but the stuffs pretty cool
 

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When i broke the one on my 4.6L (srt handz) did the same. He told to just pull hard on it and it will pop out.

Replaced it with one off the shelf from O-Riley auto
 

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Twista said:
When i broke the one on my 4.6L (srt handz) did the same. He told to just pull hard on it and it will pop out.

Replaced it with one off the shelf from O-Riley auto

that
 

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If you can and are very careful...You can use a drill to get the remaining chunk out. I had to do so.
 

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