How to Install a Chevy Engine in a Ford: the Radiator Edition
How to Install a Radiator in your Chevy Engine (in a Ford)- Part 2 : That’s a mouthful.
As a female, I am sometimes annoyed by what sometimes seems like a conspiracy on the part of male inventors who go out of their way to make certain that parts of similar products are incompatible. Give me one good reason why Mac and IBM computers had to go their own separate ways. And why can’t I find a compatible adaptor for my (OK, it’s old) Yamaha electronic keyboard? Yadda, yadda, yadda with the seventeen electric cords that are stuffed in my kitchen drawers for when I need to charge up one of my assorted small household electronics and appliances.
Well, after watching this video of Doug Jenkins installing a Chevy radiator in a Ford, I confess that I may have judged too quickly and too harshly. Perhaps men are beginning to see the light – or, at least men like Doug the quick-change artist are. And all it took, according to Doug, was planning - mocking the whole thing up carefully before installation to be sure that everything fit perfectly. I watched him with my own eyes as he took a slightly modified Chevy radiator and dropped it into its new Ford engine home like it was born there. Part of the trick was what he calls “captive nuts,” of which he has a seemingly endless supply of sizes, because they hold the intake and outlet holes in the exact place they need to be for everything to work. Bravo Doug, you’ve restored my faith in progress!
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