I've installed lots of Nissens radiators in a variety of different vehicles. Great quality and fit. For every application so far, their radiators have had more rows of tubes and more fins than the stock radiator ( some as much as 30% more capacity )
-----------Robert Robert Bigham wrote: > Hello all > > I need to pick your brains about radiators. > > My perfect Behr round tube radiator 123 501 56 01 was destroyed by the > consequences of the acts of an idiot posing as a mechanic, but that's not > really important. Replacing the destroyed radiator is much more important. > > > Car is 1983 Model 123.223 230E Grey Market car. Four cylinder 2.3 liter, > 100 KW output. Automatic transmission. > > I shopped Rusty, and put in a quotation request a week ago, and haven't > heard anything except that the quote will be ready before long. I think I > know what that means, unfortunately. Not available. I'm used to that. > Grey market and all that. > > I'm looking for a used radiator like the one that was destroyed, and I'm > looking for a new one. > > I looked out in the big world, and find Behr, Nissens, noname, and Valeo > radiators that might be a suitable fitment. Width dimension is pretty > important. Not too wide - will interfere with air cleaner. Not too narrow > - fan shroud will gap at sides and not force airflow through core. Just > right > is 518 mm, wide, i.e, standard width. Height is standard 123 chassis > radiator height. > > I am shy of noname radiators. Maybe I shouldn't be. > > Somewhere I read a rant against Behr radiators of the 1980-85 period. Hose > nozzles break off or something like that. Flimsy. My old Behr radiator > was > perfect and worked perfectly. There couldn't have been a lot fundamentally > wrong with it. But it is history now. > > I never heard of Valeo radiators except vaguely and I think associated > somehow > with Volkswagens. I never heard of Nissens radiators at all until now. > > There are many things I have never heard of. > > I never imagined having to roust out a radiator, although I bought a used > one > (which turns out to be wrong - too wide) on ebay, just in case I might need > it > sometime.. It's an excellent Behr radiator except it ain't the right one. > Too wide. > Interferes with air cleaner snout. > > I'd like to hear anything anyone might care to share, and any advice anyone > may have. > I'm sure there's a radiator guru or expert out there somewhere. > > Thank all of you. > > Robert, in a liquid to air heat exchanger mode. > . > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
