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The lower hose is the stocker. The upper is a DAYCO D7128. The lower fought me as the Rad bib was slightly larger than stock. The trick for any rad hose- warm water/ warm day. Put the hose on a house door knob. A door knob on a house door. Use the door knob to open up the hose a bit - so when you are all contorted up under inside the engine bay it goes a bit easier. I would leave the hose on the door knob for hours- just to make life easier

I pulled the fan to give me some room to work. So now I'm at the crossroad to the path of an electric fan................ next time

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Go with a mechanical thermo clutch fan and try to find a stock shroud to fit the radiator.

I might need a fan with a short snout. It is on 4 inches from the pulley face to the rad's ribs
 

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A stock fan and clutch would fit fine. They're 3" from the pulley face to the front face of the clutch.
 

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So Pope Francis needs to come over an bless the radiator before I fire it up............
 

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Same here......BFD

Damn man! Where you been? Need not to worry... the Pope has left the building... kind of like Elvis, but not going home to Graceland.

there is a party at the Vatican.............. scenes from the Movie: "The Pope Must Diet (Die)"
 

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Pressurized and NO LEAKS what so ever. I am going to try an 18 inch electric fan. I fabbed up a bottom bracket an will grab a driver side bracket from work tomorrow. I took it up the road without any fan and it has a bunch of torque
 

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I use a Chevy HHR fan, new off rock auto I think it was $35 with shipping when they were on close out. Here is a pick. Pulls about 3000 cfm.

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Almost I had to fab up the brackets and then I'm set. Don't know the fan's brand, but I used the same model in my van for 8 years. It throws some wind

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no aluminum shroud? not sure how well that will work ?,looks quite a bit to big as well for looks.. jmo
 
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ya i knew that would go over well ,but this forum is also not full of wussies .constructive critizem is welcome ,or are we all a bunch of yes men here??(sheeple) not me ,ive had criticism on my car as well and it was welcomed ,thats why i join these forums.slant6billys got thick skin and ive praised his car and his work before
 
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