Well,
As I said before, both factory radiators that I had looked like Swiss cheese. And since I like using what I have around, the Mitsubishi radiator will get the nod. The radiator is a 92 Mitsubishi Eclipse unit that was in my sons car that we hauled off to the salvage yard. But I pulled the radiator and fans and under hood wiring that I thought may be of use before it left.
The unit itself is just a tad wide to fit between the frame rails, but just a little hit with the grinder on the pinch weld allowed it to drop right into place.
I looked in my scrap pile and had a piece of thin wall 1/1/2: aluminum angle and ran that across the radiator opening just below the lower mounting bolt. The radiator has 2 studs that stick out the bottom and will set into the hole you see in the aluminum angle.
The radiator did not have a cap built in so I had to buy a filler neck for the upper hose. This is the only thing I had to buy. $15 on E-bay. I used the original slant six upper hose and cut it very short. Then I used a piece off of the Mitsubishi hose to go to the radiator. It lined up perfect.
My new electric fan fit perfectly between the upper and lower tanks. The radiator had a temperature switch in the lower tank and a wiring harness/plug that will be used to trigger my fan relay and power the fan.
Heavy blue wires to run the fan, lighter green/black to the temp switch. Plug will make it tidy.
Original slant 6 hose on the lower tank
Fan & radiator in place.
Made 2 tabs for the top studs and everything is snug in place.
Pressured everything up before adding anything in the system, That way you can soap test everything before you have anti-freeze dripping. Found 2 intake studs leaking and the by-pass hose!
All in all, I guess I'm just a fiddler or a tightwad, take your pick. But I had all the stuff I needed except the filler. A new radiator will probably go in some day, but for now this one will work. I hope!
Rick
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