Dartin for Divorce

Gearhed73 said

Did you have an overheating issue? I would just run the pump and fan, this will be fine. The shroud, I would either make some metal tabs to center and mount what you have, or just run without it until you fine another one. I would NOT start cutting it apart (coming from guy who has no problem cutting stuff into pieces) Its not going to just overheat or something, you'll be fine. There is no need to make things more difficult for yourself. I would assemble what you have and get some cruise time in.

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I didn't ever check the temp with an external temp gun and my guage never got above "half way" but I boiled coolant out of the over flow line all over my garage after a short drive.

When I checked the rad it was all rusted out inside so I decided if I was cleaning it and getting hot I should just replace the old parts with new parts as they were probably past their prime. Which this was true with how the inside of the wp looked.

Since I had the coolant drained I figured this would be a great time to replace the headers and exhaust. Since I have the manifolds off I figured what better time than now to replace the spark plugs and wires.

See why I shoudnt "think"