shots from the garage...
More amazing discoveries.... the cooling fan has been noisy for quite awhile. Removed it from the radiator and found it wouldn't even spin a revolution by hand. wonder how many amps that was drawing! Worse yet, it appears the fan had been hitting the radiator just ever so slightly. I never run the fan going down the track though I've forgotten to kill it on a couple occasions. I know my dad just left it on. Being the fan is in the front I'm assuming that at speed it was getting pushed back some. The core it was hitting has got to be paper thin... I can't believe it wasn't leaking. Ordering twin 12" fans and will get a new radiator coming Monday.