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Used radiator pricing

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Kats66Pny

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Alrighty...I have no clue, and I'm sure of one of ya'll would know. What would be a fair price for my old radiator? :shrug
It needs a good cleaning/flushing out, but other than that had no problems with it when I had in in Gertrude.

21" high
19 and 3/4"wide
2 and 1/4" thick

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:wtf are those rubber plugs or holes in the fins for? If you are planning to sell it I'd spend some time straightening out some of the bent fins.
 
:wtf are those rubber plugs or holes in the fins for?
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little black things?? those are two left (of 4) that held the trans cooler :shrug
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I'm not touching it. lol I'd sell it as-is.
 
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Might get more for scrap copper......most will put in new by the time one spends the cleaning money (possibly show a leak) plus cleaning up the appearance. Find some poor kid with a Mustang that is in need and donate it to him..... I did that with two Mustang radiators and one '60 F100 unit.
 
It's a stangfix member who asked if I'd sell it. But neither of us know what it's worth or anything. lol
 
Last used one I got from another StangFix member cost me the shipping only....$20.00.....because we were not close. It was about the same condition....used and good.
 
Am I seeing something different in Kat's pics? That looks like an aftermarket aluminum radiator to me. :confu
 
If it is aluminum it is worth more. Like 2x more. depends on brand.

I thought it was odd you would sell an aluminum radiator, so I wasn't going to comment. You should clean that up and use it!

Does it leak?

Mel
 
Doesn't leak. Nothing wrong with it.

I'm just replacing it with one similar to this, that fits a 5.0 swap that has the in/outs on both sides, not just the one.

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Well I wouldn't touch it but I might suggest passing it on like so much has been passed on to you.
 
"Ponyman66" said:
Am I seeing something different in Kat's pics? That looks like an aftermarket aluminum radiator to me. :confu
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That's what I thought too... why sell it?
 
"Kats66Pny" said:
Doesn't leak. Nothing wrong with it.

I'm just replacing it with one similar to this, that fits a 5.0 swap that has the in/outs on both sides, not just the one.

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Radiator shop can make that happen to your old one...
 
"midpack" said:
Radiator shop can make that happen to your old one...
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They can?? :confu

I really don't like how it was set up before and the bendy hose at the bottom (the green line), which is why I was going to just buy a new radiator.
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Kat, you might call a local radiator shop. Explain to them that you have an aluminum radiator and would like to relocate the bottom snout from the RH to the LH side. See how much they'd charge. Might be cheap. Might be as much as a new radiator. If you kept it, would you reuse the oil cooler mounts?
 
Those rubber clips are not the best to use. It is better for the long term to mount the tranny cooler to a solid body part.....not the fins of the rad. I have used them in the past and they do work....but I always wonder when I will get a leak in the rad. from them vibrating while driving.
 
Those were a temporary thing. A while back when the lines hanging underneath and caught on the floor of the garage and busted the old trans cooler, we knew we would be redoing all that stuff so we just stuck the cooler on there with those clips. Originally the cooler wasn't attached to anything which is why it fell and caused the line to hit the floor.

I'll eventually make or get something so the trans cooler will be attached to the radiator support itself and not the radiator.
 
"Kats66Pny" said:
They can?? :confu

I really don't like how it was set up before and the bendy hose at the bottom (the green line), which is why I was going to just buy a new radiator.
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Couldn't you just swap out the water pump for one that has the hose connection on the opposite side?

Last I checked a water pump is much less then a decent aluminum radiator. Personally, I went with the high flow pump from Summit.
 
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