Thread: My 64 Ford Custom Project

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After waiting for 2 months on a back ordered radiator, I cancelled the order and bought one off E Bay. I got a 30 X 19 which is the biggest that will fit without major surgery. It came in the middle of last week and I thought there might be a chance of actually hearing the car run this weekend.

Unfortunately when I went to pick up parts this weekend, the lower radiator hose I need has to be ordered, so it won't be in till Monday. Without the hose, my sense of urgency went way down, so most of the weekend was spent just mounting the radiator and taking naps.

I built a lower bracket from a piece of aluminum channel I had laying around that happened to exactly fit into the bottom channel of the radiator.

The top bracket was another piece of the channel bolted to an original 64 upper radiator hold-down. I only spent about an hour building the brackets and bolting the radiator in, but half a day figuring it out.

I had an old Ford fan shroud laying around and a bit of trimming and fabricating and my fingers stand a bit better chance of staying on my had when I time it. I put a 7 blade Ford flex pan on it (I like them because they have quite a bit more pitch to them than the aftermarket units), but can and probably will dig up one that's an inch bigger than what I used.

I sprayed a light mist of black paint over thefront and ends of radiator so it doesnt stand out so much.

So at the end of the weekend, the radiator, fan and shroud are mounted along with the transmission cooler. We'll see if I can make it go next weekend.