What is this thing?

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What is this thing?

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Can anyone help me identify this seal? I recently fished this out of the filler neck of my radiator and I have absolutely no clue what this is, where it came from or how it got in there to begin with.

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I figure since it was fished out of the top of the radiator, it must have entered through there as well unless the truck was run without a thermostat at some point. Maybe it's simply just some trash that found it's way into the radiator, possibly from a junkyard or something?

The truck is running fine otherwise, but I'd sure like to know if this looks like it might be something I should be concerned about or not. Obviously, I'm going to be flushing and cleaning my cooling system in the near future. I've got the oxalic acid crystals on order now.
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Doesn't look familiar.
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Must be those muffler bearings that everyone talks about. Not an option for my '67, and I'm not sure how they got in the radiator. ... unless you had one @#$%&* of a backfire through the carb! :wink:

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What is it made out of...?

It looks vaguely like part of the shutoff valve on those funnels/tubes like you use for gear lube and such...
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Looks like part of a hose or part of a spray nozzle on a hose. :D
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>>Looks like part of a hose or part of a spray nozzle on a hose.>>

^^This.^^ I have one on my hose end sprayer. Identical. And, really, really old.
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Makes sense - someone used a hose to fill the radiator and that fell off.
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The spray hose nozzle is likely the correct answer, and it makes total sense. Good knowing it’s not something more critical.

Thanks for the ideas, ya’ll!
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