If only full aluminum rads were more common and not so many dollars. I believe in engineered plastics, but would be all over that!
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Your viscous fan should engage at higher speeds. I know this goes against conventional understanding and thinking but I have proved it
How did you prove it and where can I read about it?
Allow me to gently suggest...any replacement radiator will likely be another copper/brass one because I just don't trust plastic;
Allow me to gently suggest...
Your apprehensions about plastic radiator tanks, having shared that feeling, and, as a result, having suffered through two years of un-nessesary frustration, limping by with an (almost) non-functional cooling system - here in the hellishly hot desert southwest US... are completely unfounded.
Look around you - every modern car, from every manufacturer... Plastic tank / aluminum core radiators - running literally all over the world - for how many decades now?
Let's be practical - if you get one of the statistically unusual leakers - well then - shrug - order up a new one. They just aren't very expensive, and the replacement procedure isn't difficult or high skill.
p.s. This subject has been absolutely - - so many time over - here on this forum. Search (for my name, for one) and read from now until next week...
Good job your not posting that on a Chevy forum in the V8 section.This isn't this hard as this forum makes it out to be. Optimum cooling is:
* remove thermostat entirely. No thermostat means MAXIMUM FLOW and no parts to break.