As you may have seen in the OT forum, green machine's radiator decided it had had enough, and split most of the way across the top tank. I was able to finish what I needed to do and am now in the process of doing some maintenance items.

Great white donated its radiator for the cause, since I didn't quite have the extra scratch to buy a new one. Since I can't drive it right now anyways, this will work fine, and it will get a fancy new Mishimoto when the time comes.

Some usless info, Green was made in 5-96, the date code on the radiator that came out was 5-96, so I think its safe to say its been there for the duration of almost 405,000 miles.

The one thats going in is 4 months newer, and has 25,000 less miles. Tanks look good, and dind't see anything as to why this wouldn't work for now.

Also going to service all the hoses, and water pump. As they all appear original or close to (the hoses for sure are original)

And since I can't just leave well enough alone, it will get the seeping oil cooler rebuilt. I figure this is as good of time as any. I found a write up by Travis, it all sounds easy enough, we shall see.

Other goodies will include a coolant filter, and some other parts I had laying around. In my inspection I also found one VC had burnt pins, and the other is leaking oil, so those will both be getting replaced. Special thanks to Aaron for the parts.

It will also get fresh oil, trans serviced, TC serviced, and some new shoes.

Pics of all this to come, nothing special going on here, but hey, we can allways use another BS thread. lol.

 

Sounds like a plan, git re done!

 

Green machines cracked tank.





Great whites radiator





Wp side of the lower hose. This was fun to get off.





It appears this is a 205 t stat. Motorad is the brand, been trying to see if I can find another, but all I see is 203's.





The oil cooler





New shoes!!!

 

The oil cooler is not as bad as people make out. It's messy and you'll probably have to scratch your head at least once to figure out which way to turn it to get it to slip out but all in all not to bad. Did you find he dog dishes for those black wheels?

 

Yes I did! Nate is sending me a set. I wasn't expecting to find any, so glad I did!

 

My oil cooler was a lot more rusty than yours. I thought I needed a new one. I could have got away with just seals. The rust got in between the seals and the collar that holds the oil filter too. I did put a new OEM oil cooler in with seals and it works great. It wasn't a bad job just a little time consuming because you have to drain the coolant and do an oil change at the same time. It went together easier than it came apart and that doesn't happen often. Just make sure the new seals stay very clean and don't touch anything when reassembling.

 

I figured since I was already there practically doing radiator and water pump, why not take the extra step and just get it done. Glad I did, pics coming, its been seeping a while.

 

You saw mine being done, your an expert now!! lol

 

Love those shoes....wish I had the money to put those on mine back when I did them...

 

I was telling Aaron, I wish I had paid more attention. Its out, and on the bench, going to try and clean it up. its messy!!!

 

Greasy!!! Lol.


And yes Lee, I'm hoping they will be good for this winter! They should have nice road manners, with enough aggressiveness to get through any tough stuff. I also decided to go back to stock size.

 

I just put Goodyear dura craps on mine. Lots of people have them around here now because they are a fairly aggressive snowflake tire. Apparently we need to have that stupid snowflake to be insured on winter roads. I can't really complain so far though. They aren't nearly as loud as I thought they would be. They still wander a fair bit while towing but they've only got maybe 500 miles on them so far and have been getting better

 

Man a mishimoto for great white that's fancy. I tried to find the link of where I got mine with no luck.

 

I had them on an '84 f-150, '99 explorer, and a '94 f-350 the used to be the "stickiest" tire I have ever used... almost seemed impossible to loose traction in snows, rain, or ice....