Ok, so, im excited im pumped. Im going to work on my car this weekend. Im at my garage checkin things over, going to top off the coolant. Check the cooland and its full, humm a day ago it needed some added. So i burp it a bit and see some bubbles comming out. I look at my fan, i dont ever remember it actually ever turning on. I drive to work and let the old girl get nice and hot. Pop the hood and have a look. Fan doesnt turn on, humm my ac clutch fan must be cooling my engine. So i get down on all 4s to see about removing this to inspect it. Oh my my my. Many many missing fins, i can actually see through it. Lots of green blotches and spots. My thinking is this is done for.

 

 

 

 

 

SO heres my idea. Remove the radiator, both fans. Flush heater core and replace thermastat. Then remove power steering pump and remove iac and clean. Re attach iac and power steering pump. Then put good junkyard radiator (if i can find one) in the car and fine 1 huge electric fan out of another car and wire it to run all the time. Im thinking something from a ford taurus. Nice and thin.

 

Also noticed while it was running today there is a whineing. Not like anything ive heard before. I ear checked the passanger side head and it seems to be coming from the front. Timeing belt idler. Its going to be a long winter.

 

Its to bad i dont have more money to buy the timeing belt kit, it would be a perfect time to change out the timeing belt idler and pullys, waterpump and oil pump with the radiator and everything else out of the way.

 

I got all my parts in, i can tell the cap and rotor will be easy. Exhaust manifold gaskets will be easy if i can get the exhaust bolts off. Valve cover gaskets will be a pain in the butt because of the ac and they are covered head to toe with a thick layer of grease.

 

 

On top of all this put on my rear brakes, blast and clean up my newly aquired pugs. AND finish the body work on my car before winter.

 

Man i need some help.

I have a spare rad. with fan. Was given to me when I bought the brat. I have yet to check to see if it holds water as of yet but the fan should be good I am guessing

It for a ea81

Might be the same but mine is an ea82

Might be the same but mine is an ea82

 

not the same. you can make them work, but take a bit of massaging

Yea ill just half to head out to wrench and go to see if there are any decent ones there. New ones are to expensive.

last row theres now a ea82 wagon.

it has a radiator, but not sure the inlet for hose in good on it, it had orange goeey sealant around the hose inlet...

Might half to buy one from my ole buddy dennis and the parts wagon i gave him. Im pretty sure that one was good. Was the one at the junkyard a bright red DL

it was a dark red, and it still had 3 wagon wheels on it, still had the plastic retainers for center caps....tires shot.

clean inside.

Dont know if tht was the one i was looking at or not. Was it the DL.

it had 3 wagon wheels on it

was an automatic, and clean inside.

the axles boots were crap

:)dl 4 headlights

 

or gl 2 headlights:grin:

i checked the rear diff, was not an lsd but think was a 3.7 had push button 4wd on lever rear window wiper was missing the blade.

Yep thats the one. I was gonna snag the hood off of that one but it ended up being severly rusted underneath.

Check ebay for a radiator - there used to be listings where you could snag a brand new one for like $58 shipped. I got one a few years back for an '87 3-door.

 

Also you should note that in 91 or 92 they changed the lower radiator hose and the angle of the connection at the radiator changed. So if you get a new radiator it *might* have the pre-91 lower hose, but then again it might not. Just be aware of the change and if you get a radiator with the newer style connection just go order a hose for a 93 Loyale.

 

And when you are looking for radiators in parts catalogs also look for the late model Loyale pricing. Because of the hose change it might be a different part number and there's always the chance that it's cheaper.

 

GD

Edited July 26, 200916 yr by GeneralDisorder