Got a bit done this morning. Mel came out and we mocked up the lower rad support. He went junkyarding yesterday and picked up a few radiator mounting rubbers. We used a couple under the radiator and cut two up for the upper mounts.
The radiator sets nicely in these two. We drilled 1/4" diameter holes in the cross-piece to hold them in place with the little rubber nipples.
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Radiator in place on the rubbers.
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We cut up two rubbers to fit into the upper radiator channel.
This is the passenger side.
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The drivers side. These will get clamped into place with upper radiator brackets.
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Once we had the radiator sitting at the correct height, we could design the upper radiator brackets.
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We measured everything and took into account the foam strip and shroud at the back of the radiator. We will use a piece of closed cell stick-on foam rubber to seal the upper and lower shroud flanges and this is what the upper brackets will pull into place and compress to get some clamp on the radiator. Rubber strips on the support side will give something to clamp against.
I didn't get any fab pics of the brackets... But we laid these out on some 16ga steel and stomp sheared, rota-broached and press braked them into shape.
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We need to pull the corners together, weld them up and drill the holes but we knocked off for the day and will get that done tomorrow.
Along with mocking up the battery bracket in the truck and getting that welded.
We will start fabbing the shrouds tomorrow also.
Mark
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