[Tigers] Fwd: radiator mounting

[Owain Lloyd]

Thanks everyone for your data points.  Both private and to the list.

I rather like our good doctor from Parump's suggestion that
the mounting points were not perfectly in line and hence the rad was under
stress when tightened down.  I'll check that with the new one in position.
 I'm tempted to give the new one a try using only a thick foam strip all
the way round between the rad and the front panel and just bolt through
that.

I've attached a couple of photos of the location of the leak.  you can't
see it.

What a great group of owners tiger list members are!

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 11:59 PM Mark Rense via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

>
> My Griffin has been solidly mounted in my stroker car for over ten years,
> never had a problem with it, and the car does flex a bit with all that
> horsepower.
>
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:58 AM Owain Lloyd via Tigers <
> tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> hi,
>>
>> what are you guys doing to mount your alumin(i)um radiators?  i had
>> changed my stock rad for an ali version from Dale a few years back. not
>> because i needed better cooling but mainly because i was tired of soldering
>> the rad up all over the place and thought it must be all flexed and
>> stressed out.  the first time i put any miles on the car recently, the new
>> rad sprung a leak which i assume is from having it bolted solid to the
>> front panel which is flexing under torque and cornering.  since i can't
>> really repair it, I bought a new one from the UK but want to mount it on
>> something which absorbs the flex and vibration.
>>
>> I have a bunch of exhaust bobbin rubbers from a mini but i suspect they
>> will put the rad too far back and allow too much movement.  its not arrived
>> yet so i'm not exactly sure of the width.
>>
>> this solution looks nice but it wouldn't work without large holes in the
>> mounting tabs.
>>
>> https://www.conceptracing.co.uk/sunbeam-tiger-high-efficiency-aluminium-radiator/
>>
>> cheers.
>>
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