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04-13-2019, 11:00 PM | #41 |
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 444
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Re: A Chinese radiator in a Model A?!!!
I bought an aluminium radiator from an American manufacturer supposedly designed to fit the Model A, but the bottom mounts and the side mounts all required modification (Luckily I have a friend who is very handy with welding aluminium) and the filler neck was completely wrong, too large diameter and wrong thread. I was able to remove the neck with some cautious grinding, and then removed a neck from a derelict original radiator and bond it in with a special glue/compound. I wanted a lighter weight radiator for my speedster, but the moral is that even a radiator made in the States may be no better than a Chinese one and as we are in New Zealand, it's financially unviable to send it back under warranty. The fins are very thin and easily damaged, so we have a stone guard which I would prefer not to have as it obscures the shape of the radiator shell. It certainly copes with the temperature, almost too well and I have a restriction in the top radiator hose and in winter it requires a half muff.
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04-15-2019, 08:31 PM | #42 |
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Japan
Posts: 60
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Re: A Chinese radiator in a Model A?!!!
it was the first time I ever had to fit a radiator, a little learned curve but I got mine to fit. It is far from perfect but I am building a driver and a lot of stop and go traffic we’re I live so cooling is a priority over originality. I painted mine black to slow down the corrosion.
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