Thread: '32 ford truck

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any progress ?? keep the pics commin

As I have been building this thing, in the back of my mind, I have been concerned about over heating. With the grill shell chopped 4 1/2" and the radiator the same it's pretty small. I want to use a mechanical fan, no electric water pump. I want to see the fan spinning in a shroud. Just like it used to be.
My idea to help this is to use a tranny cooler and run the water pump threw it just like a heater core. I have no idea if this will work. It is so tight in that area I had to trim some of the fins off for clearance, then I welded some fittings in the end of it. I'll run a short piece of steel braided line then turn it into hard line up to the manifold and water pump.
I'll let you know if it works, it will be easy to by pass it to check it.

Certainly can't hurt any. If you have ever had a car that was running warm, and you turned on the heater, it would usually drop the temp somewhat. I had one start running warm on the interstate one day, and kicked the heater on full blast, and the car ran normally till I could get home and fix the water pump problem.

You are in a good area to pickup airflow there, which is why I put my tranny cooler exactly where you have yours mounted. But with only a 4.5 inch chop, and a quality radiator, you should not have any problem anyway. The '32 radiator in my '27 was chopped 8.5 inches, and was on the edge, but was ok with an electric fan.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Certainly can't hurt any. If you have ever had a car that was running warm, and you turned on the heater, it would usually drop the temp somewhat. I had one start running warm on the interstate one day, and kicked the heater on full blast, and the car ran normally till I could get home and fix the water pump problem.

You are in a good area to pickup airflow there, which is why I put my tranny cooler exactly where you have yours mounted. But with only a 4.5 inch chop, and a quality radiator, you should not have any problem anyway. The '32 radiator in my '27 was chopped 8.5 inches, and was on the edge, but was ok with an electric fan.

Don

I hope your are right, I just look at that Little radiator and sweat ! I will yank that thing off in a minuet if it doesn't need it.

Mounted the taillights today. Just used some 1/8" plate and some aircraft winged tubing and welded some studs on them.

Got the fan shroud kinda glued together for the first fit.

I started this thread in the Deuce Den , now it is in Hot Rod Talk how does that happen? I don't care just curious.