Aluminum Radiator

[JoFotoz]

OK..but I never had a too hot issue.

But then again...600lbs of skid plate..

...then all that F/glass!



Ya..OK..I'm givin' you a touch of grief Kat!



Jo

[VX KAT]

OK..but I never had a too hot issue.

But then again...600lbs of skid plate..

...then all that F/glass!



Ya..OK..I'm givin' you a touch of grief Kat!



Jo

it's 150 lbs of skid plate, not 600! Needer needer needer!

Interestingly, I talked to my offroad/mechanic at length about all possible causes, especially discussing all that others here mentioned in Zadam's thread. The skids being #1 in my mind as possible cause. He says the radiator itself is the ONLY thing that disappates heat and the skids have nothing to do with it. Plus he pointed out I had the skids on for 1 1/2 yrs w/o any overheating issue...um, good point....

He went through several other of the possibilities and why or why not he thought it could be it.

Yes, we could have just flushed or rodded it out like Zadam did and see what happens, and that may have worked, but I wanted to actually increase my cooling ability so that I "might" actually be able to run with A/C on when off road in warm temps.....as heat is my #1 enemy and makes my body turn into a slug....well, um,..... a bigger slug than normal. Probably won't be able to do it all the time, depending on the speed I'm going on the trail, but I thought it was worth it....now Dave....well, maybe not so much....

[VX KAT]

Yah! My Ron Davis Racing radiator is now done and installed.
It looks awesome, and the welds are a thing of beauty!

• It has about 3x the cooling capacity and the entire unit is aluminum, there's no plastic.

• The fins are 2.25" deep vs. the OEMs of a little shy of 1.5".

• It has 2 rows of 1" tubes.

• The temp needle now rides about 2 tick below "halfway", whereas it was just 1 tick below before.

• The OEM front bracket had to be modified slightly in the angle.

• The OEM shroud had to be modified a bit on the top to clear the fan blades. They're in the same position, but end up further inside the OEM shroud because the radiator is a little deeper than the OEM, pushing the shroud back a bit. My mechanic just had to cut some of the plastic off the top of the shroud. (We priced a custom aluminum shroud from RD.......it would be at LEAST $400+...nevermind.....)

• This was a little over $600 for the unit (plus some $70 for packaging materials). It was only about $200 more than an OEM....and I decided to splurge!

Will have to wait for a good hot AZ summer day to really test it out!

Again, a HUGE thank you to "newthings" for all his help on this and helping me bring this to a reality
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