New Radiator
Submitted: Saturday, Jul 17, 2004 at 18:36
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Member - Roachie (SA)
G'day all,
Just thought I'd let you all know that I've bitten the bullet and bought a PWR radiator for the Patrol.
What a beautiful piece of equipment it is. (Mind you it'd want to be for the price). The thing slotted straight in to the existing position. The only issue i had was that despite the lugs being provided to accomodate the OE plastic cowling, I could not get it to fit. The reasons were more to do with the fact that radiator is noticeably thicker and it's inner face sits closer to the motor than the original. So when I tried to position the cowling in place, it fowled on various motor parts,( but not the fan).
I decided initially to simply leave the cowling off altogether, but quickly realised that without it the top of the spinning fan was easily accessible to any misdirected fingers. So a decision was made to cut the cowling horizontally about 100mm down from the top and just put this piece in place using the 3 screw lugs. Note that the raditor has 3 holes tapped to take 10mm screws, wheras the plastic Nissan unit has 3 self-tappers to do this job. Luckily I had a supply of the correct size bolts on hand.
Hope this helps anybody who is thinking of following this method of solving the 4.2's tendancy to get too warm in the summer months.