OK folks, tie on the bibs and tell your wives or otherwise financially far more responsible better halves, to hide the checkbooks.
I got my custom made aluminum radiator today in from Rodney Red and it's a beauty.
My old radiator was leaking so since I needed one anyway, I went ahead and had them make me up a 5 row equivilent ( has 2 really big aluminum tubes per row instead of 5 little copper jobs )
I'll be taking it for a hard towing test dragging the 5er over the Ozarks over the next week, so I'll report back on cooling performance, but so far it does run cooler by at least 17 deg f, sitting in the driveway holding 2000 rpms with the ac on.
He's got the pattern made for my 92, not sure which other years that one will fit, It took quite a while for it, but the next ones should go much quicker
since the engineering is already done. Not sure what the price will be yet. He hasn't figured it up . I know what I paid,but he quoted me a price before seeing how big that monster was, but he made good on it, but you can see by the guys website that his prices are very reasonable.
--------Robert
I got my custom made aluminum radiator today in from Rodney Red and it's a beauty.
My old radiator was leaking so since I needed one anyway, I went ahead and had them make me up a 5 row equivilent ( has 2 really big aluminum tubes per row instead of 5 little copper jobs )
I'll be taking it for a hard towing test dragging the 5er over the Ozarks over the next week, so I'll report back on cooling performance, but so far it does run cooler by at least 17 deg f, sitting in the driveway holding 2000 rpms with the ac on.
He's got the pattern made for my 92, not sure which other years that one will fit, It took quite a while for it, but the next ones should go much quicker
since the engineering is already done. Not sure what the price will be yet. He hasn't figured it up . I know what I paid,but he quoted me a price before seeing how big that monster was, but he made good on it, but you can see by the guys website that his prices are very reasonable.
--------Robert