Well I have put 119 miles on my truck over the last 3 days and nothing has fallen off, yet. I have a little pinion seal leak but thats all the leaks. But it gets hot!!!!!!!! This has been one of my concerns, with this cut down radiator. I added a automatic trans cooler to act as a heater core but it still isn't enough.
At 60 mph it runs at 160 degrees, but on side streets it will just keep going up, it went to 230. I wanted to see if at some point it would become efficient but no soap it kept going. So this tells me I just don't have enough air flow at the lower speeds.I am thinking of adding an electric fan in front of my mechanical fan and run it off of a thermostat to kick on at 180. On the freeway when I have enough air flow the mechanical fan will just pull threw as the electric fan will be free wheeling. I just don't want to give up the look of the mechanical fan.
Has any one tried this?