radiator core support

[webelk6]

I need to replace my core support. My '88 has hit 2 deer, and I have known this since I bought it 2 yrs. ago.

Because of this nothing lines up the way it should. So I bought the core from james @ cruiserparts. and of course it was mint.

Do you have to remove the radiator to put this in? I inspected it on the rack and saw the fender/valance/everything else, but couldn't tell it the radiator needs to come out.

I searched the threads and found no answer.

 

[Texx]

Yep, the radiator's bolted to it.

 

[Waggoner5]

You don't have to completely remove the radiator though, it can be left in the engine bay, so you don't loose the coolant. The AC has to be discharged though to get the lines through the core support.
Gary