Hey, I picked up a Griffin universal radiator a little while ago and never got around to mounting it. The endtanks are on the sides (stock is top and bottom) and there are no mounting brackets since it is a universal radiator. Has anyone done this? I just want to see pictures of where you put brackets on and such. I thought about going with the top and bottom, but theres nowhere to hold it on the bottom...so I guess I'll have to have an aluminum shop weld some brackets on the edntanks? Pictures please!

 

yeah I had one. I just got some aluminum L's from home depot and drilled a nut and bolt through them. You should only need one on each side. Thats a big *** rad and its really not going anywhere once you have the hoses connected so don't loose any sleep over it. Don't pay someone big bucks for something like this

 

I don't have any pics handy but you are on the right track. I had aluminum L brackets welded onto the end tanks. Depending on the size you bought (mine is 26 X 19) you can probably line one side up with the factory mounting points and then get creative with the other side.

Yuba City, all I remember about my short visit there was orange trees.

 

I've taken a similar route with bits from Homey's Depot. I bought a length of 1" wide aluminum about 3/16" thick. I bent the stuff into long "J's" that hooked around under the end tanks. These were then bolted to the stock slanted brackets the stock rad. lays against. I used counter sunk hardware for a flush bolt head and added a little weather strip rubber to lower vibration and rubbing(which will wear through the aluminum). I hold the new rad. in from the top with a wide piece of aluminum bolted to the core support through existing holes. This way now welding is required on the rad. I can take pics today and post tonight if this sounds like something you want.

 

jgrewe, sounds interesting and if you do have time it'd be awesome to get soem pics, thanks in advance.

Lawyer's Spirit I ended up getting 24x19..didn't think the 26inch would fit. So how creative did you get? haha any pictures? and ...Yeah Yuba is a really lame city with a lot of oranges and mainly peaches..

Everyone, would a normal welding shop know how to weld the L brackets on properly? I heard that a really good welder would have to do it...don't want my radiator leakin. When I have them do that I'll prolly have them also weld on the drain plug and that smaller tube that branches from the lower outlet.

 

Just about any welding shop will be able to do the job, look for TIG welding ability. Most radiator shops could do it too.
I'll take pictures tomorrow, we have two cars with the same set-up.

 

Here are those shots. This was the mock up stage so the hardware isn't counter sunk but you get the idea. The J hooks hold the tanks and will have foam to protect them. The shot of the top is another car, that one has gone through some changes in the cooling system so there is some strange stuff, like a "P" trap from a kitchen sink to help make the bend to pickup the lower hose point on the driver side of the car. The first oil cooling system had a heat exchanger to fill that spread. We now run two stock coolers instead.

 

Wow, I never thought about that...no welding required Thanks for all your input guys.