I've missed two of the races so far this year, have been too broke to go. However I have some time finally to do something I've been planning on for awhile. I'm moving the rad to the back. I'm hoping to have this completed by this coming weekend so I can go do some racing. I started out by taking all the fenders, box-sides, and doors off;
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This is the first time that I've had the fenders off and found a few screws loose....on the truck
It seems that the sheet metal screws don't hold the inner fenders to the cab good enough for long term use so I'll use riv-nuts and bolts in the future. I removed all the wiring from the inner fenders and the rad from the rad support. The white pvc piping I used for the fluid lines held up just fine. Then I removed the front clip;
After crawling around and under the truck yesterday and this morning trying to figure out routing for the new rad lines I finally had an epiphany...who needs passengers anyway? I drilled some holes in the front and rear firewalls and ran some 1 1/4" "emt" tubing thru the middle of where the passenger would normally sit. Much easier than any other way that I could think of;
I've been dragging this tubing bender around for a few years now and finally had a chance to use it. I bolted it to a plate that I secured to the ground and, voila, I can bend tube...and it so happens that the 1 1/2" die fits the 1 1/4" "emt" perfectly.;
I was able to get two perfect bends;
In the above pic I was contemplating having the rad lie flat for lower "cog" but have since decided it will be too much trouble fabbing up mounts for it. I have since mounted the rad standing upright on the crossmember about ten inches behind the cab. I have no pics yet but I think it will survive the jumps I do.
In the front of the truck I tried to bend a piece of "emt" that already had a bend in it to come around the front of the engine. This bend didn't work quite so well.
I believe it kinked because it's a slightly thinner wall tubing that I happened to pick up from a job-site's scrap pile. I used it anyway as I don't think it will affect flow too much;
Off to work tomorrow finally. Only a one or two day job....oh well.