Aluminum 8N radiator?

[gears]

Anyone seen those new Tig welded replacement radiators from Alloyworks on that auction site? $189 and free shipping.

A friend wants hers to stop overheating. Everywhere else is 200 and up plus oversize shipping....

 

[Hobo,NC]

I am working on a Ford 3000 that has one, all I can say is it looks cool.

 

[Tim PloughNman Daley]

You need your RAD shop to flush, clean, amd make any repairs on your OEM unit. Better than buying anything made new today. Don't overfill.

Tim Daley (MI)

 

[Welding man]

All that sounds good if you had a radiator shop in your area. I don't know of one within a 100 mile radius of where I live. Owners have all retired or died and no one is taking them over. Same for Machine shops. We can't get a crank ground anywhere.

 

[gears]

Would if I could Plowman. This is fixing for a friend who lives an hour away to start with. Then, like Welding man says, how to find a shop still open....

Hobo, did you put it in or did it show up that way?

 

[warbaby]

I bought one, but then I had to cut the bottom outlet off of it, move it inward about 1.5 inches and had it re-welded it so it didnt
interfere with the LH dogleg. I guess I coulda just notched the dogleg for clearance, but I had just painted that part!

It works great and other than that reconfiguring of the outlet it fits just fine. The overflow tube was just pressed into the filler neck so
I removed that piece, tapped that hole and added a 1/8''npt x 1/4'' compression fitting elbow. I then ran my own, slightly extended overflow
pipe through the shroud (THAT actually fit this radiator, first try!) and down below the radiator support bracket.

Now I just gotta do a J.B. Weld enabled mash-up between the plastic cap supplied with the radiator and a proper ''winged'' OEM style cap to
complete the look and hopefully hide that overflow tube elbow.

A clean, leak free and free-flowing original radiator woulda done the cooling job just as well, if not better (and without any mods) but
that aluminum one at least LOOKS cooler...

 

[Hobo,NC]

Showed up that way

 

[Tom in Mo.]

I got the "restoration" quality brass radiator from this site for a 901 and it fit perfectly and was heavy. Over $300 but in my book, you get what you pay for.

 

[jimtrs]

(quoted from post at 20:49:20 07/05/23) A friend wants hers to stop overheating.....

I have not seen / used them.

There are many reasons why an engine can overheat.

 

[gears]

Thanks Jim, I am starting at the radiator as that is leaking - guess I should have included that part- and it ran fine last year, before the radiator started leaking.

If a replacement non-leaking radiator doesn t keep it cool I will dig deeper. Most likely replace the thermostat in the upper hose when I put the radiator in.