Put a Champion 526 radiator in a 71 swinger?

rtee007 said

Yes I did review your pics when I was preparing to do this. I kinda wish I had seen the pics before I had ordered the strips (ordered in 7/14 along with the wrong 24" radiator I just sent back, fortunately I had a 26" here for a 71 Demon project for my cousin), I would have gotten 2 x 1/8 as well. Oh well I will make it work. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious :)

Just picked up a 48" piece of 2'' x 1/8" on Ebay for $14 shipped

BTW, are your fans touching the cooling fins?

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The fans don't touch the fins, that would be bad. #-o

But, the fan shroud is supposed to touch the fins around the edge. You want the fans to pull air through the radiator, not in from around the shroud.

Basically, the picture above shows exactly what I did. I installed the mounting strips on the edge of the radiator first, then I laid the fan assembly/shroud right on top of the radiator. Once that was there I added the spacers in the gap between the tabs on the fan shroud and the mounting strips on the radiator so I wouldn't crush the radiator fins when I tightened the bolts down. The fan shroud stayed in the same spot though, laying flat on the radiator fins.