After market radiators

37chief · May 17, 2019

My 401B runs close to the red on the gage, but still in the green. It may be getting plugged. I see after market radiators for around 250-300 dollar range. All from china for sure. Anyone have any success with these radiators? Do they fit? Thanks, Stan

el6147 · May 17, 2019

I,m not going to answer your question specific to your application .

This is what I can tell you , I sell after market radiators and I also core them , aftermarket vary in fit and quality. Something you won't know until until its in your hands.

replacement cores can vary also , I can get cores specific for fit and quality to my request when I order them .

cheaper is not necessarily the best choice when it comes to a radiator, a properly cored radiator is very time consuming.

Bob · May 17, 2019

(quoted from post at 22:56:20 05/17/19) My 401B runs close to the red on the gage, but still in the green. It may be getting plugged. I see after market radiators for around 250-300 dollar range. All from china for sure. Anyone have any success with these radiators? Do they fit? Thanks, Stan

"All from china for sure."

Actually, it seems many replacement tractor radiators come from Turkey.

The ones I've installed have typically been of reasonably good quality, but some trimming and fitting and finagling is often required to get them to fit 100% properly.

D- · May 18, 2019

I would use a Deere. A&I (owned by Deere) uses Turkish
made radiators.
On utility tractors the drain location is off a little.
You will have to trim to be able to turn the valve.
Also the tanks seem to be thinner.
Re cored ends up too close to new price to suit me and
sometimes have to be returned for do over. Not many in
that business here anymore.

Kansas4010 · May 18, 2019

A few years ago my neighbor bought an aftermarket radiator for his 4010. The overflow pipe in the neck was in the wrong spot and required grinding a little bit of the hood off. There is also a baffle inside so you can't see the antifreeze level. He hates it but the tractor doesn't run hot so he left it alone. A year or so later I replaced the radiator in my 4010 and just because of his problems I went with genuine jd. The overflow is way off and required a pretty good sized notch to be grinded out of the hood. It doesn't have the baffle in the wrong spot like the other aftermarket radiator so I can at least check the antifreeze. Personally I think jd is just buying whatever radiator from whatever source is cheapest and dropping it in a genuine jd box.

ET · May 18, 2019

A lot of the cheap aftermarket cores have fewer rows of tubes in them. I make sure any cores I get have as many rows of tubes or more than the origional.

dwag · May 18, 2019

Will re-core original radiator rather than us an aftermarket. Noticeable difference in quality.

lfnel · May 19, 2019

I did the same, re-cored using original fin & tube spacing, rather than go to China. Cost some more, but this way I didn't have to look back.

SVcummins · May 19, 2019

I put a 350$ eBay radiator in a 4020 seventeen years ago and the only complaint Is it didn?t hold up to the fan blades when the bearing went out on the water pump and the fan blades caught the fan shroud

ghostdncr · May 19, 2019

I bought one for my Ferguson off eBay and got it installed yesterday morning. Works great, holds pressure, and keeps things cool. No idea as to country of origin but it was relatively cheap and looked like a near duplicate of the original. Came with new hardware that matched the original in appearance but the wrench flats were just a hair oversize. The fan shroud pilot holes didn't match up at all but a few minutes with a drill took care of that. Aside from drilling and fitting the shroud it was basically a drop-in fit. At my age, it should be the last one I'll ever have to buy for this tractor as long as I can keep from punching a hole in it.

JD Seller · May 19, 2019

Where you do mowing in hot conditions I would have the original recored over buying an aftermarket imported one. We have a lot of issues when replacing radiators in tractors that do hard work. I have seen several JD 4440s and JD 4450s that ran hot with the "new" imported radiators. The aftermarkets ones and new JD ones can have fewer cores in them. So you have less surface area to cool.

Also on your JD 401 check and see if it is really getting hot. The gauge could be wrong. If it is the old style mechanical gauge with the expansion tubing going to the block, I have been having troubles with them reading hot on JD utility tractors because of how the tube runs over the motor.

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