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Product Reviewed: Cherokee 3-core all steel radiator |
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| Intro: |
| If you're in the market to upgrade your cooling systems on your cherokee adding a 3-core all steel radiator is definitely the best upgrade you can add. After installing a 3-core radiator in my cherokee, I noticed a great difference in how cool the engine ran compared to when I was running the stock plastic 2-core. I picked up some really nice, very well built replacement 3-core radiators for both my Wrangler and Cherokee at www.Radiators.com. If your in the market to get a new radiator this is definitely the place to pick one up. Not only are there prices the best I've seen, and the products are very well built but they offer upgrade 3-core radiators for just about every vehicle you can think of. |
| Install: |
I started out by of course draining all the old freon out of the old cooling system. I drained it into a bucket so that it can be properly disposed of. After the system was completely drained I started removing the upper crossmember located just above the radiator. I also had to remove the electric cooling fan and radiator shroud from the Jeep, this was easy and only took a few minutes. The Next steps included taking the inlet and outlet cooling hoses off, removing the automatic tranny lines which are located on the driver side just under the filler neck. After everything was removed it was time to pull the old radiator out. The radiator in a cherokee simply pulls up and out fairly easily. After removing the old radiator, I placed it next to the Radiators.com 3-core and was shocked by the difference between the two. There was noticeable difference in quality of craftsmanship but the thickness of the old one. Being a stock 2-core the radiator was about 1" thick as apposed to the new 3-core which was substantially thicker (~1.75"). Also my stock radiator was made of plastic and the new one was made of all steel construction.
After examining the differences between the old and new radiators it was time to install the Radiators.com unit. Re-installing the new radiator was a piece of cake. They supplied all new brace fittings, and hardware necessary to install the new radiator which is very nice. Nothing worse than having to go to the local auto parts store and pickup some stuff in the middle of an install. Anyways, The new radiator slide into the factory mounts in seconds, bolting it down was cake, and re-hooking up all the hoses and tranny lines took a matter of minutes. After bolting everything in and re-installing the shroud and cooling fan it was time to fill the new radiator. I used 1-gallon of radiator fluid and 1-gallon of water. I started the Jeep up and ran it for a while trying to work out all the air pockets. Luckily there weren't much and the radiator in the end only took a little more water. That concluded the install. |
- Install time was approx. 1 hour
- Parts needed: 1-gallon of Radiator fluid, and some water.
- Tools needed: Basic socket set, some torx wrenches and a couple screw drivers.
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