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Is my radiator seated too far back?

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    Is my radiator seated too far back?

    I dropped a screw into the space in front of my A/C condenser, and then noticed there are a lot of leaves and gunk between the condenser and the radiator, so I want to make some room to get in there and clean the area up.

    That requires moving the fans out of the way. No big deal, right? But the bolt holding the fan to the radiator is sitting just behind the front crossmember. I can't seem to reach it without taking apart my chassis. That doesn't seem right.

    And now I notice the wingnut for the bleeder screw is under the crossmember. Wouldn't that also make radiator removal hard? Is it supposed to be like that? It looks like the radiator is mounted too far back. As if it were pushed back by a front-end impact long ago.

    Does this look right to you?

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    #1 that pic sucks bro
    #2 take the radiator mounts off the top
    #3 now that ur radiator is free (somewhat) make sure the plastic guide pins (on the bottom) have the round rubber seats.
    #4 the rubber seats have a round metal seat that they sit in.(they are part of the subframe

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      Any accident history?

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        #4
        It was in some kind of front-end collision long ago. Not something that would definitely push the radiator back an inch, but I suppose it's possible.

        The pic sucks, but it's the best I could do… it's centered on the radiator drain plug, and the point is that the plug is overlapping the crossmember so I can't lift the rad more than a few millimeters once the top mounts are off.

        Also, that the bottom fan shroud bolt is inaccessible on the other side of the crossmember. Does that sound wrong to anyone who's taken out a fan?
        Last edited by Potatoswatter; 07-15-2010, 02:55 AM.

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          #5
          You should be able to get at all the fan mounting bolts from underneath.

          Just pull the whole radiator out with the fans on it.
          The only extra work required is; draining the coolant and removing the top and bottom hose clamps.


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            #6
            The pic really sucks, but I can make out the drain plug being under the crossmember, there should be about a half inch gap between the cm and the drain plug. Have you ever gotten this vehicle aligned? If your serious about your cb7 you might want to pull the fenders one day and asses the sittuation

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              #7
              It's been a bit since I was in there, but if you can get a 10 mil wrench on the lower fan bolts you just need to loosen them a bit. The fans are slotted on the bottom and once the top bolts are out they will pull up. If you don't have room for that then you have frame damage more than a little bit.

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