Need 36 Terraplane Radiator

[Deleted User]
[Deleted User]
edited November -1 in HUDSON
Just got the 'good news, bad news' phone call from the radiator shop. Good news is the heater core is OK, bad news is the radiator is shot. Anyone know where a good used or NOS one is?



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  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    The bad news is, you're probably gonna have to recore it, as these things are 70 yrs old now.



    I was lucky enough to find one from a guy who was hot-rodding one - but it's still old.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I have a radiator from a 35T. The core and tanks are good but the upper hose connection is kinda ratty. I also don't know if a 35 and 36 radiators will interchange. If you think you can use what I have send me an email and we'll try to work something out. Otherwise I wish you the best.



    George
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    I have a quote of $1400 for a new original style core, does that sound about right? (ouch!).

    Any suggestions on where to send it? I can save a few hundred dollars if I go with a modern style core, but I want to keep the original look.
  • Jon B
    Jon B Administrator
    Sounds a might high, to me. IF you have a honeycomb-style radiator and you're 'going original', that might explain the price. You could consider using a more modern type of radiator. Here's a 'thread' on radiator recoring from the AACA website, these are Buick guys speaking to one another: http://forums.aaca.org/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=418792&Main=408147 .



    Paul O'Malley, in Capon Bridge, WV, is a Hudson guy who does radiator work. I think he finds new cores of the appropriate size then uses your old upper and lower tanks on them, but I'm not sure. You'll find him in the H-E-T National Roster.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    Interesting conversation on that thread. I was told that with the price of copper going through the roof, that the cores had just about doubled. No wonder that people have been stealing wire and plumbing out of new houses around here. Looks like I might have to get out the old piggy bank and melt down some pennies to pay for this.
  • Park_W
    Park_W Senior Contributor
    I paid $1200 in about 1997 for my '36H honeycomb radiator, so your $1400 seems about right. I used American Honeycomb Radiator in New York, I believe it was. Great job. I sent him the tanks, etc., he made the new core. He's done a lot of the radiators for liquid-cooled engines in airplanes at the Smithsonian, etc. Knows what he's doing.
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User]
    That brings up a good question, what is the proper shape of the core cells. This one had a 'diamond' pattern, (to use the radiator shop's term). But they said it had probably been re-cored and the proper shape was a 'V-Cell'. They had samples to show me, some were a 'hex' pattern, some were honey comb, but they said that the V-pattern was used from 1933 through the late 50's by Harrison Radiator.

    Since your 36 Hudson had honey comb, I wonder if they are right. You would think that they would be the same, unless you have a different engine than the 212.



    Thanks
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