radiator whats, a good one on ebay.

UD has given you good advise below.

Avoid fit and quality issues by repairing/recoring your OEM radiator or finding a good used one.

Dean
 
FLEA Bay why not buy from some place like this site or a tractor dealer where if it is not right it is easy to take back
 
Note there are currently two different varieties out there: standard quality and restoration quality. Restoration quality is supposed to be more like or identical to original, though I cannot attest to that personally. They are also more expensive. I would guess most sold on the web (and Ebay) are the standard, which may have some fit issues.

The only experience I've had with a reproduction radiator is a standard quality one I installed on a Jubilee. It fit and worked well except I had to bend the fan shroud a little to get it around the lower outlet.

The down side to finding a used one is that the cores may be coated with residue or plugged up from decades of use. By the time you have it recored, you might have as much in it as a new one.
 
(quoted from post at 10:30:14 01/29/15) FLEA Bay why not buy from some place like this site or a tractor dealer where if it is not right it is easy to take back
hanks if and when I do get one I will buy from here, there's really nothing wrong with mine just a little banged up. Lots of good info on this site glad I found it.
 
My first choice has always been, what I felt was the least hassle overall; a competent rad reconditioning at a good RAD shop and I've never regretted it. They take the top and bottom pans off, clean the tubes, re-flood solder around all the tube to pan connections, pressure test them, guarantee them and Bob's your uncle.

Waaay cheaper than new in the end, and an easy refit with no used pig-in-a-poke surprises.

The rad shop guys will quickly tell you if yours is worth refurbishing, and if probably is. You can do without a few cooling fins and maybe the tubes are still sound.

But having them recore, if it was hooped it would leave your rad frame mounts all together (like someone on this thread pointed out) and probably be just like a brand new '49 rad but maybe no cheaper than a new lesser quality rad today.

Have fun giving new life to a worthwhile part if you go to the rad shop.
:D

I used to go to Maurice's in Victoria, but the last time I went looking for them, they were long gone so I looked up another lonely rad shop, and lo and behold the owner had bought all the equipment from Maurice's!!

Oh, and he used to work at Maurices.
He's more geared to mechanical now but still knows rads inside and out. Scaled down a little compared to Maurices with the rad shop on the side..
 
When I had my 46 rebuilt a few years ago, my mechanic called and said that the top had come off my radiator. We don't have a rad shop close to fix it so I ordered one of the repros from somewhere.( I don't remember where) Before it got here I went to get my old rad to save for later. Turns out that the only thing that had come off was the filler neck. The new one came in and since I had it I put it in. I had to redrill a couple of holes, they were about 1/2" off. After I put the hood on , the cap set about 1 1/2 inch above the hood. It looked so goofy that I soldered the neck back on my old one and put it back in. Now I try to get used original as much as possible.
 

Good story!
That's like a lady telling you she needs a new head gasket when it's her valve cover. :)
 

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