Nissan Patrol 4x4 (Africa)

johannes.dieterich wrote:

Tinus lotz wrote:0116805691 TOMBO AUTOMOTIVE they are in turfontein brand new one from alli for 2500 + vat graham fitted one for roelf he has worked with them before

Hi Tinus,

thanks so much for the response. I am wondering why Graham didn't tell me about this option. Do you have contact details for Roelf so that I can phone him?

Most appreciated,

Johannes

Peter Connan wrote:Hello Dieterich

As Cedric has pointed out, I had a radiator made up by Thermo Radiators, who are in Jet Park. The radiator is a complete fabricated unit made from copper, using only the top and bottom plates from the original radiator (in the Y60 I have, the tanks are on the sides of the radiator, not top and bottom like your car, and it mounts on the top and bottom plates). As a result the radiator fitted perfectly into the car and the standard fan shroud also bolted straight on. The piping configuration was also faithfully copied. As a result, no modification was necessary whatsoever. This radiator cost me less than half the money you are talking about.

However, copper is not the ideal material for a radiator in my opinion. I would have preferred an aluminium radiator, but for some reason it is apparently almost impossible to source aluminium radiator cores at the moment (I was told this by seven different radiator specialists, and must thus believe it to be true). Copper is much more robust than an aluminium radiator, but I also heavier (not really an issue) but also less thermally efficient (although this is solved because they use a thicker core) and the only remaining issue is that a galvanic reaction can occur between the aluminium parts in the engine and the copper of the radiator. To prevent this, it is necessary to earth the radiator to both engine and chassis, so even that is simple to solve.

However, my radiator has a slight leak somewhere and I have yet to get around to taking it back in...