Ok dumb question but it's got to have a simple answer

engine break in stand has a Caddy radiator

problem... hose up to a ford 460

radiator upper hose 1-1/4... ford thermostat housing 1-3/4

radiator lower hose 1-1/2".... ford water pump inlet 2"

AND they are on opposite sides of the motor so the hoses must cross..

I thought about buying short 90 ° sections in each of the inlet/outlet sizes... but they gotta come together in the middle...

without spending a fortune on adapters and hoses, what is the best way to connect all this and keep the antifreeze inside the engine...

john

 

Go to the hardware store and look at PVC fittings.....likely you can glue or screw a couple together and make it work. I used this method on my swamp cooler (don't ask, LOL).....

 

Thank you for calling it the inlet.

Radiator hose bushings are available to fit the 'correct' size hoses on the puny Caddy rad necks, but I've never priced them so I don't know if that'll be any help to your budget. I like the PVC fittings idea. For a few bucks, you could be in business.

Here's an equally stupid question right back atcha; How about if you turned your crossflow radiator 90 degrees and stood it on end, creating a conventional, vertical drop flow? That would put the necks on the same side as the engine fittings and for what you're doing, I don't think it would matter at all.

 

The right thing to do is go through the Gates or Goodyear books or web site until you find a suitable hose, or one that you can cut down to work without any additional seams, if possible. That is how I found appropriate upper and lower rad hoses for a 351C connected to a original straight 6 rad.

http://www.gates.com/catalogs/file_d...cation_id=5326

 

John,
You can get the rubber radiator hose bushings at NAPA in 1/4" increments from 1 1/2 up to about 3"

The part #'s start at NBH 902 I think and go up to NBH 907 or somethting like that

You could also use sections of exhaust pipe reducers

Bobby