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Noticed a Peterbilt 379 at the truck stop near Amarillo with a custom coolant overflow tank setup
Stopped for coffee at the Love's off I-40 yesterday and saw a guy fabbed his own aluminum tank with a sight glass. Has anyone else run into a simple shop-made mod that actually worked better than factory parts?
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david56228d ago
Huh, that's actually pretty common with guys who run older trucks. Seems like half the time a factory part gets overengineered when a simple custom setup does the job better and costs less to fix.
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sean78228d ago
Read some guy on another forum say the same thing about his '89 F-150. Factory radiator was a nightmare, but he rigged up a junkyard one from a Crown Vic that worked perfect for years.
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the_derek28d ago
Man, that Crown Vic swap is pure gold... I did almost the same thing with my '85 F-250. The factory radiator was this overpriced 4-row monster that kept leaking at the seams after a year. I pulled a single-row aluminum one from a mid-90s Taurus of all things at the junkyard for like 30 bucks. @sean782 you're spot on about the '89... those parts are getting impossible to find new. That Taurus rad bolted right in with just two little tabs I had to bend, and it dropped my temps by 15 degrees even in the summer hauling gravel.
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