Hi all,
After getting home this weekend from a relatively long drive I found that my radiators' drain plug has snapped in half and leaked all my coolant. I am unable to get the second part of the drain plug out of the rad, and am unable to get a replacement drain plug from any local parts store so I think I'm going to go ahead and replace the radiator. Its the stock rad and has well over 170k on it anyways.
The vehicle is a 91' grand marquis LS and I believe it has a single core stock radiator but I would like to replace it with a two core radiator. I've never had any particular overheating problems besides a bad fan clutch, but I think at the minimum a two core would help the car down the line when I go back to Phoenix (110+degree summers) and give it more HP down the line.
I've read a lot of similar posts that vaguely refer to summit's two core radiator, but am unable to find it because I keep running into the issue of the rad's thickness; I believe the stock rads measurements are 27.5" x 18.37" (at least that's what the replacement stock rad is) with a depth of 1". I have also checked out the stock radiator for the 351w's which came with 2 cores, but the measurements are a little different; 28"x17.5" with a depth of 1 1/3" (both are spectra radiator measurements). If the 2 core could be modified to fit I'd be fine with that as well. Its only $50 more.
Any help is appreciated!
After getting home this weekend from a relatively long drive I found that my radiators' drain plug has snapped in half and leaked all my coolant. I am unable to get the second part of the drain plug out of the rad, and am unable to get a replacement drain plug from any local parts store so I think I'm going to go ahead and replace the radiator. Its the stock rad and has well over 170k on it anyways.
The vehicle is a 91' grand marquis LS and I believe it has a single core stock radiator but I would like to replace it with a two core radiator. I've never had any particular overheating problems besides a bad fan clutch, but I think at the minimum a two core would help the car down the line when I go back to Phoenix (110+degree summers) and give it more HP down the line.
I've read a lot of similar posts that vaguely refer to summit's two core radiator, but am unable to find it because I keep running into the issue of the rad's thickness; I believe the stock rads measurements are 27.5" x 18.37" (at least that's what the replacement stock rad is) with a depth of 1". I have also checked out the stock radiator for the 351w's which came with 2 cores, but the measurements are a little different; 28"x17.5" with a depth of 1 1/3" (both are spectra radiator measurements). If the 2 core could be modified to fit I'd be fine with that as well. Its only $50 more.
Any help is appreciated!
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