For $1,000 you can have one mother of a custom rad built in a day!
Its 2.5" thick, 22" wide and 6" taller that stock.
I had to move my intercooler (again) out 2" and drop the lower rad support 6".
Hey, Northgator8 we will be through Ottawa next week.
Someone said Gabriell's Pizza was the place to eat?
That should keep her cool. Lets see some pics when you have a chance. With the time and effort you have in that truck it's worth $1000 for a custom rad.
That is great news. I can't remember, what is there in the Cummins for a cooling fan?
I dumped the giant Cummins belt driven fan for the Black Max Extreme electric one.
It was a perfect fit on the Dakota rad and still covers 2/3 of the new rad.
Well almost fixed the overheating.
In the real warm weather and on some long hills it would start to get over 190.
The rad shop guy did say that the front of the Dakota had terrible air flow with the big bumper restricting a bunch of air flow even with my 6" lower rad.
I took his advice and stopped in at a hardware store , bought a small hand saw and hacked the lower center part out of the bumper.
That has made a difference with no more hills over 185 degrees.
The bumper had been damaged before I got the truck and was on my hit list for a future metalwork project. This just moved it farther up the list.
Checking out Old Quebec city tomorrow and then on to the Atlantic provinces.
190 is awesome. My truck runs about 185 empty with the 180 stat in there. I pulled my trailer home on Sunday and was running up to 230 with the heat on in the truck and windows rolled down and right around 30*c, or 86*F outside. That shows about 3/4 on the temp gauge. That's only pulling an fairly mild hill.
