Hi Ron,
It's amusing to find your question this afternoon, as I just
reinstalled the radiator in my TD this morning. Water pump was leaking,
after only 48 years of service, so Phil Marino rebuilt it with new seals
and bearings.
Order of things from the top:
Radiator
Rubber pad(washer) with the ring around it
Chassis/radiator mount cross beam
Rubber pad(washer) with the ring around it
Large steel washer
Nut
The rings will fall off the rubber pads until the pads are slightly
squeezed. That's not a problem with the upper ones. For the lower rings,
get the nuts started and turn them up a little. Then slip on the ring and
take a couple more turns on the nuts. Pause there.
Slip on the upper radiator hose.
Put the bolts into headlamp fittings - no nuts yet
Hook up other plumbing-bypass hose, heater pipes, etc.
Wiggle the radiator to be sure it's centered.
Snug up the hose clamps.
Connect the side stays to the radiator.
Put nuts on headlamp bolts and tighten.
Snug up the bottom radiator nuts.
You might find that you can't get the wrench onto the rad nuts when the
rad is fully down. I have found that using a couple of cedar shingles as
shims to hold the rad up slightly when starting the nuts and first
turning them is a great help. When the nuts are up high enough that the
wrench won't fit easily, remove the shims and the rad drops 1/8 inch and
the nuts are accessible again.
There are a number of TD owners who don't bother with the nuts under
the radiator. They say that the nuts are unnecessary and that the
radiator is well secured without them. I'm not in that group. I figure
that if MG spent the money to braze the studs onto the radiator and
invested in the cost of labor that it takes to struggle the nuts on, that
they must have had good reason to use them.
Bib
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:02:37 -0500 Ronald Olds <tr6@pipeline.com> writes:
> I'm getting ready to install my freshly recored radiator and am not
> sure
> exactly how it is supposed to be installed. I have the Moss mount
> set with
> the rubber washers and steel rings but don't understand how they are
> to be
> used. When I removed the rad originally it was held in place with
> nuts and
> steel washers only.
>
> 1.Doe the steel rings go around the rubber washers?
> 2. Does one of the washers go between the rad and the mounting
> bracket and
> the other go under between the bracket and the nut?
> 3. Is there supposed to be a steel flat washer under the nut?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Ron Olds
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