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bottom mount radiator into a side mount?
« on: September 20, 2012, 03:57:21 PM »
Has any one had any experience slipping a bottom mount radiator into a side mount configuration.  

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Re: bottom mount radiator into a side mount?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2012, 08:36:47 PM »
Providing the rad will clear the sheetmetal of the grille, you would need to weld a pair of tangs underneath the front crossmember and add a support rod from the rad to the firewall. When I did mine I also changed the grille so I can't address whether or not a CJ3A grille will allow it to clear. The tangs, of course, must be aligned correctly as to spacing and angle. I acquired the tangs from a junker frame. There are notches in the tangs that have compound angles in order to fit under the crossmember which make it difficult to make one's own.







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