As you know our Birds run hot, I've added a flex fan with spacers to get it closer to the rad, flushed the cooling system and pulled the rad to straighten every fin, still ran hot when stopped, did the 160 degree thermostat switch, still would get hot when stuck in traffic.
I then added the bottom parts (mostly because I thought the top would be included) of the 2 piece fan shroud off a Bullet Bird. There is no real place to mount it except at the bottom of the rad where I made a mount but after strapping it in place, even without the top portion it made a world of difference, car never gets over the M on the gauge. Yesterday I was sitting for 45 minutes in traffic on the way to a gathering and perfect.
The other thing I did was get the draft tube replacement piece from John Draxler at TBird Ranch, and plumbed it into the underside of my air cleaner where I originally had a put a pipe from the oil cap breather. I have shiny chrome valve covers with breather in them so it was un needed. Now where if sitting in traffic staring at my temp gauge and watching small bits of smoke waft up from the passenger side draft tub I now can listen to tunes and not worry about either.
I then added the bottom parts (mostly because I thought the top would be included) of the 2 piece fan shroud off a Bullet Bird. There is no real place to mount it except at the bottom of the rad where I made a mount but after strapping it in place, even without the top portion it made a world of difference, car never gets over the M on the gauge. Yesterday I was sitting for 45 minutes in traffic on the way to a gathering and perfect.
The other thing I did was get the draft tube replacement piece from John Draxler at TBird Ranch, and plumbed it into the underside of my air cleaner where I originally had a put a pipe from the oil cap breather. I have shiny chrome valve covers with breather in them so it was un needed. Now where if sitting in traffic staring at my temp gauge and watching small bits of smoke waft up from the passenger side draft tub I now can listen to tunes and not worry about either.
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