Who here is running a walker with a 36 Ford? I am looking to replace my re-cored original with a new one. The one I have now is too thick to allow a mech fan and all I can use is a pusher, and at lights it creeps up past 210 or higher depending on how long the light is. This is at any outside temp, I drove it a week or so ago and had the same problem. It also has a leak that needs fixing as well. My concern with the walker is that they do not appear to have the bracket the mounts the hood ornament or the hood itself. The gennie has a bracket on top with 4 tapped holes for the hood ornament and hood bracket. If you run a walker how do you mount your hood?
i have a Walker Z-line in my `36.. with a mild 283 and a mechanical fan it never gets over 190. a friend with a `36 with a Cobra radiator and a 305 tells me the temps are fine i'm not sure what you mean about the brackets , mine had everything to mount the hood hinge and the bullnose. there were 4 tapped holes
36-3window.. that is what I am talking about the 4 holes. I spoke to the guy from Macs and they sell a Cobra 1.25 Series for $531.50 plus $30.00 shipping for auto trans no A/C Also have a quote from Portell Radiator for a br***/copper 4 row with cooler for ****** $600.00 shipped.
The holes are there. I had a stock recored radiator in mine. It started leaking and when they put it in the tanks, it went to ****. They wanted $500 to recore it! So I got the Walker. I would really rather have the stock one for aesthetics though. The hard part for me was getting everything to line up again. It's still not right. But I'm sure all my sheetmetal is tweeked too. Since the radiator was tweeked too, it worked. My mechanical fan would no longer fit, but that was fixed by turning down my spacer, so I could keep it at least close. Without the spacer, the blades hit the bottom pulley. It's an underdrive pulley, so Kevin turned down the pulley into a single groove. I had to find new radiator hose for the top since the outlet was in a different spot. It keeps it pretty steady just in the 190-195 range depending on traffic.
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