So confused.
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I use permatex sealant. Thread tape is just lube to help you tighten the fitting in harder.
Fittings can be hard to find but they are out there and definitely online.
Glad your issues are working out. Slightly downhill my truck started with a short purge. Gonna check my return tee when I get time off
Fittings can be hard to find but they are out there and definitely online.
Glad your issues are working out. Slightly downhill my truck started with a short purge. Gonna check my return tee when I get time off
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Went to go start the electric pump project only to find the ****ing radiator leak I had turned into radiator failure, idk how but massive seem in it now. So I went to every junkyard I knew to try and scrap one... no luck til someone referred me to one which was like 40mins from where I live and turns out the are the only junkyard with more than 1 idi in it. Two had hardly been touch one I considered buying because it looked like it was in better shape than mine lol, anyways I pulled a radiator then took it home for the swap, I mounted the intercooler on it and sat in the engine bay only to find out it was about 6" to tall and not as wide as the other....idk what I was thinking so tomorrow ill go and see if I can get one that will fit my truck and try her again...
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do you know about Leon's junkyard?
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I haven't been there yet but he says he has lots of 7.3 parts and the place is like 200-300 acres!
I wonder if a gasser radiator from a 460 or something might be same radiator??
you only live like an hour from me
Gordonsville, va aka Mayberry
EDIT:
after googling it seems a 460, etc gasser rad wont work and is maybe smaller or doesn't cool as much...
also read a gasser rad is crossflow and a diesel rad is downflow
so maybe incompatible...
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I haven't been there yet but he says he has lots of 7.3 parts and the place is like 200-300 acres!
I wonder if a gasser radiator from a 460 or something might be same radiator??
you only live like an hour from me
Gordonsville, va aka MayberryEDIT:
after googling it seems a 460, etc gasser rad wont work and is maybe smaller or doesn't cool as much...
also read a gasser rad is crossflow and a diesel rad is downflow
so maybe incompatible...
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There's two major radiators for our idis. Non-AC wide n short and tall narrow AC usually type. Not sure how you could adapt it unless you grab the support.
How big of a seam? I used flux hi-temp solder to patch a hole in one of the tubes (test light caught the fan lol)
How big of a seam? I used flux hi-temp solder to patch a hole in one of the tubes (test light caught the fan lol)
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