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Topic: Lowering rad support?? (Read 237 times)
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magart
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Have any of you guys ever lowered your rad support to accept a larger rad? I have the perfect rad out of my engine's donor car-a '72 New Yorker-and it's only an inch too high. My only other option is spending  on an aluminum piece. |
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68_Val_Sedan
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bust out the welder and chop saw ... no reason you could not do it ...
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75Dart440
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Shouldn't be a problem at all......I'd be sure to use the same guage of sheet metal as it is thicker than the rest of the body in that area.
Do you really need to lower it? Or can you just get away with tightening up the rounded corners at the outer edges of the rad support?
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Jim_Lusk
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It may not really be too tall. I had a 65 Chrysler radiator in my old DARt until it sprang a leak. It was taller than the a-body by about two inches, but I just set it down as low as it would go and it cleared the hood. It's easiest to check this without the engine in the car.
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magart
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As usual, you guys don't miss much--upon further inspection, it looks like its not bottoming out on the lower support-its the brackets on the side of the rad stopping it from dropping all the way to the bottom. I can probably fix it in 2 min with a grinder
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