G'day Dno. Nope a blower wouldn't have helped. That damn spinny gets well embedded in the radiators fins. I have a 4L air tank on board, just enough to allow an air gun with some pressure for short spurts to help get the crap out. Unfortunately its a one power ball job. Pulling each individual spine out of the fin by hand for most of it. There is still heaps buried in the fins with no spine on them to pull out. What cant be blown out has to stay there for good. The only way to really do it, is to remove the radiators - Tranny, A/C, Engine and intercooler. A big job that isn't going to happen. Best just to drive into a tree and have them replaced! I spent 6 hours on the job and got it as best I could.
Nope he wasn't towing. I don't know what happened, we were only minutes from it happening. You cant see it in the pic, but the sickening sight was a car baby seat face down on the road about 10m from the cruiser. Luckily, he was sitting on the road on the other side of the vehicle, a rag on the top of his head and a small amount of blood on his face, talking on the phone. So he would have been ok bar a few minor injuries.