GMC-IH

[dragstews]

My goodness parts for this old truck are a wee bit hard to get ...

The invoice for the pulleys was e-mailed to me ..
Seen on it that the power steering pulley was a bolt-on, what I have is a press-on ..
Called the company and told them that what they're sending me is not what I'm needing .. They said that they don't have the press-on ..
Took off looking elsewhere and found one on eBay ...

Next fly in the soup was the outlet for the radiator ...
Explained to the salesman that I'm moving the lower bung from the left side of the lower tank to the right side and needed it to have a 1-5/8" O.D. ...
Got a e-mail from them, what they are sending to me is this ...

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[squaredeal91]

Guessing you need a brass outlet? Maybe Rob one from another old radiator?

 

[dragstews]

It's aluminum ..

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4 row, installed a two speed puller fan ...
The radiator has a trans cooler built in ..

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My plan is to run a remote trans cooler (Mounted over the top of the transfer case) along with the cooler in the radiator .. Piggyback, so to speak ..

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Not wanting to add heat to the radiator cause 400 CI SBC motors are known to be hard to keep cool ...

Also the A/C condenser is a remote with it's own fan ..
That will be mounted under the bed ..

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Again with keeping the radiator isolated from additional heat ..

 

[dragstews]

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I do have a concern bout the compressor having room without getting into the inner fender ?
Was going to shoot the engine bay sheet metal with bed liner ..
Might hold off with that till a mockup has been done ..

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Could be getting shook over nothing ..
Captured this photo off of a YouTube video ..
Sure looks like there's plenty of room ..