if you have to get a new radiator do not get one with plastic top and bottom, i did and leaked after one year.

 

We have a choice? Who makes them with metal tanks? IIRC, someone here got a junkyard radiator from a Japanese car that worked....

 

iirc, some one said canadian tire sells them. jegs or summit might sell them. all i know is i might go with a deisel radiator for the ultimate cooling power, lol only because its free

 

I live on Maui and found one at at radiator shop, sold it to me unstalled for about the same price that i wasted on the plastic one.

 

When mine went I called the raditor store and they only sell the metal ones for dakotas I think the total bill was $110 but that's over here in New England. Well worth it too cause the ones they sell are tripple core too :-)

 

i have tried everything. water pumps good, flushed it, checked hoses, drained refill, cleaned radiator, EVERYTHING

probably going to get one from the junkyard.

what years will fit? and is there a bigger one that will mount in there? maybe from a ram 2500 truck or van?

 

back flushed it again. hope it works now. cause its, sometimes, so hot that it spews it out of the overflow

 

If it overheats with a stock radiator, and it isn't the radiator, putting on a larger radiator is not going to fix it. Why are you sure it isn't the water pump? Also, home flush jobs are too often inadequate . The radiator really should come out and be done at a radiator shop, OR install a new one....
Check for crud built up at the AC condensor, and look carefully between the condensor and the radiator.
I use the shotgun approach, if the radiator has to come out to be worked on, I do the pump and hoses at the same time. No sense tearing it down more than once....

 

I took my tstat out and that made it stay cooler, atleast below 212 degrees. but how can you tell the temp without a gun? i tested the 212 by putting water on the outside of the radiator and it boiled. but i do know the ignition timings off, so that could be a cause. fix that tomorrow or tuesday. but ill probably buy a new radiator when i get paid. should i get a double or triple core? think thats what its called, the layers?

 

are you using antifreeze? 50/50 mix?