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Old Feb 5, 2015 | 05:43 PM
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Radiator for cummins conversion

Yall think a desert cooler short radiator out of an older v8 ford is enough to keep my 12 valve cool? Or only the taller version of the desert cooler?
 
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Old Feb 5, 2015 | 05:56 PM
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It's going in my 74 ford crew cab 4x4 which had a 460 swap before with a bad tall desert cooler 3 row radiator
 
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Old Feb 5, 2015 | 06:19 PM
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I'm running the 91-93 intercooled radiator, if anything it runs too cool. The desert cool would be way too much capacity and would take up too much room as well. With the much thinner radiator I am running now, that is as close as I can comfortably get to the radiator support. I only have 3/4" between the fan clutch and radiator.
 
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Old Feb 5, 2015 | 06:29 PM
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I'm running the 91-93 intercooled radiator, if anything it runs too cool. The desert cool would be way too much capacity and would take up too much room as well. With the much thinner radiator I am running now, that is as close as I can comfortably get to the radiator support. I only have 3/4" between the fan clutch and radiator.
I'm not worried about it fitting because I already got the desert cool I had in it to fit. Clears the fan and everything. Just worried about cooling
 
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Old Feb 7, 2015 | 11:02 AM
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co425 is running the same one I am. I tried the desert cooler way to big lots of problems making it fit with 99 ford intercooler that I used.Had a little problem with heat at first then s#!t canned the electric fans and used a ford 400 fan and cummins clutch,heat gone!
 
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