Almost everything's made in China/Japan/Korea now (even American vehicle original parts), and quality has gotten better. I helped a buddy put a Ready-Rad radiator in his 4.0 Ranger a good while ago. Still holding up fine.

 

Sorry, but Chinese mfg still holds a 15% QA standard...meaning 15% in the hands of a consumer is acceptable. With regards to Chinese built radiators, assuming you have the proper number & diameter of tubes & fins, 99% do not provide for an anode ...in an aluminum core, that induces or advances corrosion not only in the radiator but through the cooling system...1st to typically show up is shorter life of the radiator hoses.

I still purchase US made parts for 99% of everything that I work on...going back to the 70's & 80's when the mexico mfg phase was going on...same sone, different planet. That's why I highly recommend US radiator.

 

I am not sure I will take a look and see if it can come out without touching the condenser when I get home.

 

I'm old enough to remember when Japanese meant Crap. Twenty years later they were showing the Big 3 how to make cars. Chinese manufacturing has soared, including the Big 3 making cars and parts there. They make more Buicks in China than in the U.S. Wooow!

 

By SAE standards, 1% failure rate is unacceptable in US production standards (this is also ISO, Sigma, TQM, TPM, I could go on).....the US standard is 1% internal (not external ie customer), Chinese standard for example is 15% failure rate (internal). This does not nor should be implied to say that this should mean there should be no failure at the customer level, that is just not realistic as everyone would agree. But let's assume that a mfg's 1% failure rate in the marketplace is acceptable, by comparison this would mean every day 100,000 prescriptions would be incorrectly delivered to customers (statistics provided by FDA & Harvard).......would this be acceptable to anyone- of course not. Per both GM & Ford, if each production run of any single vehicle series was built 99% to standard (ie 1% failure rate @ market/consumer deliverable), no less than each vehicle would have on average 15 defect's (published data available). Now before anyone says it, I will- yeah, we all know of certain vehicles that everyone considered "lemons" and everyone has known more than one person who bought one of these that had at least 15 defects of more. In summary, consumer's simply do not accept 1% failure rate in any significance of large scale consumer population.

You must also remember that 100% of all the equipment used in mfg in china....belongs to china and cannot be removed or used for any other purpose. Also (as shown in published reports) currently 10% of all e-soft & hardware products from china are embedded with very sophisticated spyware....and the newest versions are imbedded in the silicone chips themselves.......

just an FYI.......

 

You should have no problems with taking the radiator off and not having to touch the condesor

 

Great! Thanks.