New Radiator

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its a 31x19 All Aluminum Summit Radiator. upon closer inspection it is stamped with "Northern" dony know if thats a company who made it or what. even has a build date on there.....May 21st, 2003 so she's barely a month old. looks about the same overall diameter as the one in there now, but a full 2 inches thicker. lowest price i could find, next best was the www.alumrad.com people allenm got his from, but they'd have to ship and on top of that they were about another $70 w/o shipping included.

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here is the thickness of it. the old one thats in there now with the 4.3 v6 is about 5/8" thick, and flops around its so flimsy. this ones got some bling bling goin for it too.

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and the 3rd...i set the fans up there just to test fitment and they look like they fit pretty well. im kinda sketchy on puttin the ties through my bling blingy brand new aluminum radiator...so any suggestions on some brackets for it to sit on???.....some "L" brackets up top arent a problem, just needs some support from the bottom.

are the fans even right side up, should the plugs be on top of the fan motor or below it? i can't tell . and anybody gotta link to some helpful wiring for dummies (allen i know you do) as far as the fans go.

i saw this but at first was confused...think i got it now just basically running 2 (30amp) inline fuses and connecting some 10ga wire from the fan plugs to the pcm wires (inline)
http://www.ls1truck.com/reference/articles...ing_frames.html

[farmtruc]

badass, that looks very similar to mine, and i'll tell you what, it will cool anything.

i'll have to find pics of how i did it, but basically, see those three tabs sticking out on the top/bottom of the fan shround, i took some 1/4 square tubing and cut is long ways in half, now it's like a channel, well i welded three supports on the rad support, the support the rad sits on, and those three tabs from the shroud sit inside the three channels made from the square tubing, it's really strong and holds the entire heavy ass fans just fine. then i took the top of it and just used L brackets and bolted them to the extra piece at the top of the radiator,

i'll try to find some pics, i know i have them around, i just need to find out what damn computer theyare on, hehe


later,

allen

btw, don't use those straps that go thru the rad, you'll tear that rad up , all the bumps and shit

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Originally posted by farmtruc@Jun 27 2003, 10:39 AM
badass, that looks very similar to mine, and i'll tell you what, it will cool anything.

i'll have to find pics of how i did it, but basically, see those three tabs sticking out on the top/bottom of the fan shround, i took some 1/4 square tubing and cut is long ways in half, now it's like a channel, well i welded three supports on the rad support, the support the rad sits on, and those three tabs from the shroud sit inside the three channels made from the square tubing, it's really strong and holds the entire heavy ass fans just fine. then i took the top of it and just used L brackets and bolted them to the extra piece at the top of the radiator,

i'll try to find some pics, i know i have them around, i just need to find out what damn computer theyare on, hehe


later,

allen

btw, don't use those straps that go thru the rad, you'll tear that rad up , all the bumps and shit

im gonna need to see some here soon slacker