>Dunno how you got a plastic tank - my 1993 Suburban K1500 4X4 has always
had
>all metal.
Dunno either, but that's what's there.
>The R&R is duck soup - pull off the plastic cover above the radiator (lots
>of 10 mm hex head sheet metal screws and a few Phillips),
Seven 10 mm hex head screws into stamped clips. No Phillips.
>split the fan
>shroud and remove the top half, remove the two brackets (top left and
right)
>holding the radiator down,
Seen all that stuff so far. Exactly as you discribe. Came right out.
>If you want a real PIA cooling system job, do the heater core, or even the
>rear heat and AC lines on that vehicle
The ventilation fan is intermittant. I don't even know where it lives. I
have been told the whole dash has to come out.
? I ordered a Modine
>(somewhere else), under $250 for the very best one they make for the
>Suburbans, and I don't expect to look at it again unless I need to pull it
>to get at something else. Modines are the best IMHO - I've never had to
>have one repaired.
I can get a Modine here in town for 248 and I think I will be getting it.
>Our Suburban has always run cool, even towing heavy trailers in the
>summer.
Same here. Both this '93 and the '86 which preceded it.
Phil Ethier
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