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Originally Posted by jbclassix
Speaking of summer time, I now need to upgrade my cooling system in the Yukon! In-town driving with the AC on has her running around 195+ with a 180 t-stat. Yeah, yeah, 195 is where it is supposed to run, but I get better mileage at 180 and that's why I was happy keeping it there. This is probably due to the HD fan clutch running harder at 195. What really solidified the decision was having to cut the AC off going over the Tehachapi pass last trip. That's just unacceptable.
Unfortunately, there is not one radiator shop here in the last stop for gas on the highway to hell! So I need to take my radiator and new core to some other town to get the tanks changed out.
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Did I really say this a year ago? Wow. Well, I decided to ditch the rebuilt radiator path and just source a used one. All in all it went in easy. There are a few differences year to year that I noted and had to deal with such as:
lower fan shroud bolt clearance
lower rubber seat location
lower oil cooler line interference
stiff old rubber seats not conforming like they should
Today I finally swapped radiators...
And this is what my garage looked like at one point today...
We'll finally see what kind of a difference this makes come Monday