Does anyone have an alum. rad. from say napa or someone like that? Trying to find one a little more reasonable.

 

I just picked up one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TOYOT...spagenameZWDVW

Looks pretty nice, haven't installed it yet:

 

^^Those eBay aluminum radiators seem like a nice item.

Rob

 

Looks like a good deal. Do you have it there or is in transit? Want to know what you think once you have it in your hands? Also, If I remember you run a stock flex fan and fan clutch right? I currently run a pair of elec. fans w/ a variable speed control switch. I have it on a stock rad. right now and some times I think it's running a little hotter than it should but it's never run hot. The needle is running in the upper third of safe scale of the gauge, only when doing some slow wheeling or long jaunts up the road. I hope that the better heat exchanging properties of the alum. rad. will help me out. Just a little cooler will be enough to make me happy. I'm also going to fab up a shroud of some kind to make those fans pull air from the whole rad. instead of just pulling from the fan area. Also has anyone used any of the high preformance
engine coolants, just wandering if they really work any better than good ole' anti-freeze.

 

I received it the other week, it looks quite nice. I run the stock fan and clutch currently on a 3-row brass radiator. Having some issues with a leak on that old rad. and thought the alum. unit looked like a good replacement. An alum. rad. is supposed to cool better than a 3-row brass due to the better heat transfer characteristics of aluminum and the thinner walls possible because of the stronger aluminum. I currently run Toyota red coolant + Redline Water Wetter but if this rad. looks like it works well, may switch over to the Evans NPG+ waterless coolant.

 

I keep having issues with "flex fan" pulling into radi when I make water crossings.
Now I need another radi, so I think I'll get one of these too. (thx for site post)
Since I did a body lift and put motor mount blocks in I had to remove the shroud, sure wish I had the wherewithall to fab a custom shroud. Then I'd do away with the flex fan and just have a stiffer fan blades....

 

I have the stock fan shroud on my radiator w/ a body lift (3") and motor mount spacers (2"). Stock fan is not a flex fan and the fan clutch should slip enough to let the fan stop if it is submerged in water. Maybe your fan clutch is too tight, my old stock one was and basically never freewheeled. I replaced it with a new Aisin clutch and it works fine now.

 

I think I'll be placing an order in the am.Gotta have that rad. And this is a little off topic but I'm also gonna order a set of wheel spacers and I was wandering how big to go I was thinking 11/2in or 2in. any thoughts?

 

By the way my rig is an 84' std. cab w/ 35/11.50.15's, 5.29 gears.

 

I didnt know 22r were so high performance they need aluminum radiators!!

 

I'm running the one on e-bay, had it for about 2 months now. Seems to be working good. Looks nice too. Cheaper then buying a stock one from Napa or Autozone, I had 3 of them in one year becasue they all leaked (Proliance/ReadyRad Brand). I finally wrote to ReadyRad and demanded a refund. Thats when I switched to the ebay aluminum radiator.

 

I want one too, but just wondering how they do as far as repairing goes. Can you just roll a fin up like you do with brass, out in the woods to get home?

 

Order has been placed, also gonna get me some 1.5 in wheel spacers.

 

Yeah Me too Thx 4Crawler

 

Would anyone mind measuring that e-bay aluminum radiator for me. I'd like to use it but I'm wondering what the difference is between the V6 rads and the 4 cyl rads. I'm guessing the 4 cyl rads are a little smaller?

 

Excluding the mounting flanges, 20.5" wide x 20" tall x 2" deep.

 

Thanks Roger, does that does exclude the tanks too?

 

Dimensions above include the upper and lower tanks, but not the projection of the inlet and outlet tubes.

As far as I can tell, it is exactly the same size as the OEM 2-row 4-cyl radiator, who would have thunk that?

 

Many thanks

 

If anyone is interested it appears to me that the V6 rad is about 2" taller but the same width. The air opening of my V6 rad is 20" wide and 19" tall. If I add on the tanks its about 22" tall.