My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(04-11-2021 )Nilao Wrote:  My radiator is a custom 4 row copper core and brass tank setup. Mine started to leak over the winter. It was the rubber bushing had hardened and shrunk allowing it to shift in the cradle. Rubbed 3 holes in the bottom tank. $250 to braze it and clean it and rivet the bushings in place so they wouldn't let it slide around anymore. So.far so good.

Is it just inside a frame with rubber bushings? Mine just has 8 pins that holds the radiator in the frame. Parts guy at Hunter's made a point to mention how the foam pads were included and installed on the sides of mine... but, they don't do anything lol. The sides don't touch the framework.

Almost all of the pin bushings on mine were wore down. You could flip flop the top of the radiator inside the frame from front to back a good 1/4" or so, which is probably what caused that nipple area to crack. Frame was kind of a pia to get everything aligned right, and I still had to change bushings around a little on my CAC mounting after all was said and done.