Pinto Car Club of America

  On a 74 auto with the 2.3 I have to change out the water pump.  I was looking at it and it looks like I might have to pull the radiator.  Am I calling that wrong.  Or can I just pull the radiator shroud, fan and pulley?

Jake

Hello Jake,
First remove the shroud from the radiator and then remove the radiator.
After removing the upper and lower radiator hoses and draining the cooling system.
From Pintony

So the radiator has to come out then.  That's what I thought.  Thanks for confirming that for me.

Jake

Hello Jake,
Removing the rad,. will just make you life easy-er....

Might as well do a flush to the radiator while you have it out........ :)

any time i do anything to the front of the moter of anything (ford chevy or mopar...) i pull the rad. out just so when im working under the hood i dont poke a hole in it they arent cheap to fix for everyone

Quote from: turbopinto72 on February 07, 2006, 09:56:25 PM
Might as well do a flush to the radiator while you have it out........ :)

  Always do.  I also have a tool that fits to the top of the radiator when it comes time to refill it.  It also you to vacuum down the cooling system then has a secondary line that pulls the coolant in and 100 percent fills the cooling system.  Never a need for a top off.  Just fill the overflow bottle and away you go.

Jake

Thats great. Looks like your on your way to a coll running machine.