Re: [ihc] Re: Scout Radiators

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan,

You make an excellent point.  I saw a different
radiator mount a year ago at Nats.  Some guy had a
tilt up front end.  He welded two uprights to the
frame, probably angle iron.  He then hung the radiator
between them.  Now the radiator has nothing to do with
the body.

But, frame twisting is still a problem.  I plan to do
this tilt up.  But my radiator won't be bolted, it
will be softly clamped between these two uprights,
like a modern radiator is.  This will stop the problem
permanently.  You could probably do this in a std body
but would take some engineering.

Steve



--- Dan Nees <cookiedan@domain.elided> wrote:
> My radiator repair guy told me years ago, and I have
> defiantly proved it
> year after year, that the Scout radiator design is
> inherently flawed and
> they are going to have problems no matter what.
> Because the tanks are
> side hung on the radiator, and because the radiator
> bolts between the
> inner fenders, tieing them together, as the body
> mounts wear out and
> rust away the inner fenders sag pulling on the side
> tanks and causing
> them to leak.
> Brand new radiators installed in a scout with old
> rubber, possible, and
> rusted/gone steel mounts would start leaking from
> the side tanks in a
> couple of years. I rotate 2 radiators myself,
> keeping one repaired at
> all times, so I can swap it out when the other
> starts to leak.
> I've always considered, but; never gone ahead and
> tried it, was to use
> either steel cable, or boltrod with a turnbuckle to
> keep the inner
> fenders tied together and take the tension off the
> radiator tanks.
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 11:58, Suprscout@domain.elided
> wrote:
> > In a message dated 7/29/2004 11:27:18 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,  
> > owner-ihc-digest@domain.elided writes:
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear IHers
> >  
> > I write this note in order to save some research
> time and to ask for any  
> > assistance possible.
> > For years now Scout/Light Line Dist as been
> supplying OEM Radiators to  our 
> > dealers, we have had neverending quality control
> issues, We are looking a  for 
> > a new supplier, has anyone had luck finding new
> radiators for Scout  IIs? If 
> > so who was the original manufacture? 
> >  
> > Thanks!
> >  
> > John Glancy
> > Scout/Light Line  Distributors,Inc.   
> -- 
> Dan Nees
> cookiedan@domain.elided