Dont suppose I could get dimensions and which one you got?
In my quest to add a/c a factory 5.0 cooling system or better has a certain appeal...
I won't care about trans cooler and I will have to built my own lower mounts anyway.
I possibly ordered the wrong year.. Even though most of them state 97-11 some of them look to be built differently. I'm beginning to wonder if it's me or the chinese not knowing shite from shinola.
I believe I should have bought one for a 97 model V8 Exploder. I got so focused on which features I wanted, I overlooked the year on accident. I wanted the style of petcock that's on the one I bought. That's where I went wrong. The models on Ebay for the 97 Explorer all seemed to have a different style petcock that I'm not fond of.
Here's what I ordered:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133833867795?hash=item1f291ec213:g:LAQAAOSwn5ZZcIbg
I'm still forging ahead with modifying this one instead of sending it back, well because I've already got it in my hands. It's at the shop getting the mounts cut off and moved about 5/8" towards the front of the truck. I took the factory trans line adapters out of the original radiator to work and turned the threads off, and cut a flare bevel in them. Bought a 5/8 x 18tpi die and cut new threads on them. They seems like they'll work now IF the bevel is right to seal properly.
I have to wait until Wednesday to pick up the rad from the shop though. After that, I hope it's a bolt-in. lol
I believe this is the one I should have ordered, and I would have, but I just now found it. Notice that the lower mounts on the side of the tanks seem to be welded on flush with the front of the tank.
What's odd is that the one I bought, from the pictures on Ebay, the mounts also seem to be mounted flush with the front of the tank, but they're definitely not. I'm wondering if my radiator was welded up wrong.. Or, again, chinese shite from shinola.. Who knows?
Mine:
The radiator I installed in my 87 V8 truck fit very nicely if you can make yourself accept the price. The lower mounts were easy to make, and I cut off the factory Ranger mounting points and just re-welded them where I needed them, and used the factory round rubber isolators. For the locating pins on the bottom, I used some internally threaded hex pieces (local hardware store - lamp parts I think) that were about 3 or 4" long that fit inside the factory rubbers snugly, cut some all-thread and loctited it in place in the hex pieces, drilled a hole in the lower radiator aluminum plates, inserted the all-thread/hex pieces, and loctited them in place with a half-nut. I can probably get some pictures if you need them. It was cheap and easy to make those. Cutting off and re-locating the factory lower mounts was the hardest part since you'll wanna raise the radiator up off the bottom of the core support hole it sits inside of. I just shimmed mine up temporarily to get the factory mounts welded at the height I needed them, then removed the shims once welded in place. I think I later added some firm foam under the bottom radiator channel just for added support. It's been flawless so far. Couple years now..
Here's what I bought for the V8 truck:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/154557258996?hash=item23fc549cf4:g:oxkAAMXQgJRQ-rSc
It fit up inside the core support very nicely, tucked way far forward. Left more than enough room for the stock 92 Thunderbird mechanical fan.. Even after adding an A/C condenser in front of it at a later date.. If you can't accept the cost, then there are a lot more options on Ebay now then there were back when I ordered mine.
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