Radiator - 2.6 petrol is it the same as a 2.25 petrol?

Hiya

after a fun 3 hours getting to and from a job interview today, due to the rad repeatedly ****ing the contents of the cooling system all over the engine bay and road, it's time to get a new radiator, but...

is the 2.6 petrol rad the same as the 2.25?

The manual doesn't give different instructions, and it does for most things on the 2.6.

I K-Sealed it after getting the water pump sorted and thought I'd got away with it, but the nice AA man dumped a tin of K-Seal in today and didn't help a lot, so where's best place for a new one (assuming it is the same for all models)?

cheers

Terry

Where are you?

different rads but fit the same

I'm in sunny belpershire, north of Derby

Have a word with John Craddock for Series bits.

craddocks...

RADIATOR 2.6 LITRE. (577383)
NOW £292.36 exc. VAT

thats £350 quid with the VAT, no wonder these motors get swapped out for TDi's, I can buy a disco for that money!

Paddocks same price....

so, can I get away with bolting any other rad into the old chicken shed, stock 2.25 for instance? can't see that it would make a lot of difference, apart from maybe needing different hoses for the top and bottom, and I was going to replace them anyway

cheers

Terry

The other option is to have it re-finned!
Try:

Applied Radiators
Unit 1, Nicolson Way
Wellington Road
Burton-on-Trent
Derbyshire
DE14 2A
Telephone: 01283 509024

Oldseadog said:

The other option is to have it re-finned!
Try:

Applied Radiators
Unit 1, Nicolson Way
Wellington Road
Burton-on-Trent
Derbyshire
DE14 2A
Telephone: 01283 509024

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Oh yes, that's the job ...

have it re-cored ... just as good ... ( and you know it'll fit )

Applied Radiators Shopping Cart

fill in the on-line Rad shop thingy & it'll give you a price

would it be easyer and cheeper to convert a 200 / 300 tdi radiator into it as tdi rads are about £100 either from paddocks or ebay

I am seriously beginning to think it would easier and cheaper to bin the whole 2.6 and replace it with something that actually works properly and that you can get parts for!

I have an option on a 2nd hand 2.25 rad that will plumb in with a bit of fiddling, that should get me through the winter, but the tdi option might work too....

cheers

Terry

I think the main (only?) difference is that the bottom pipe fits on the other side.

So with a bit of ingenuity and some hose corners and steel tube you may be able to get the thing to fit.

tbone portly said:

I am seriously beginning to think it would easier and cheaper to bin the whole 2.6 and replace it with something that actually works properly and that you can get parts for!

I have an option on a 2nd hand 2.25 rad that will plumb in with a bit of fiddling, that should get me through the winter, but the tdi option might work too....

cheers

Terry

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a V8 rad will fit in and take up the entire space behind the rad panel just so you know

I've gone for the 2.25 rad, bought some nice shiny ally pipes and run the outlet up, then back across the rad to the water pump - 3 s3 top hoses and one bottom hose (not on the bottom of course!) and £12 of pipes, plus a decent 2nd hand rad - about £50 quid all in, so I'm happy

will all be plumbed in this weekend, then I'll take a pic. electric fan arriving monday, to be installed on the front of the rad as a 'pusher' will sort the airflow at stopped and low speed I hope...

cheers!