100 Year Old Tractor Radiator

[Willie B]

Modine is still around. Today they are best known for unit heaters for warehouse shaped buildings. Radiators are very similar to heaters. Both heat air while cooling liquid.

[metalman21]

This radiator is still not complete! The radiator shop ordered the core, waited for it to be built, shipped....it arrived exactly 1" too short!!! As of Friday they were waiting for the replacement.
Oh well I guess anyone can make a mistake. My customer (the radiator shop) is pissed, got a pile of money tied up and wants to deliver and get paid, been there, done that.
I'll try to get a photo of it all assembled when they finish it.

[cd19]

That is likely a thermosyphon system with no pressure, no water pump and just uses the hot vs cold reaction to move water. Common in tractors until around 1940 area

[gwoade]

That is likely a thermosyphon system with no pressure, no water pump and just uses the hot vs cold reaction to move water. Common in tractors until around 1940 area

My late-70's-to-early-80's era Kubota tractor has a thermosiphon cooling system on it. They came that way from the factory.

[filetobeef]

beautiful work.using copper was not an option for this build?

[metalman21]

beautiful work.using copper was not an option for this build?

Thanks Filet. Original was steel and when finished it gets painted. I've haven't seen or worked on any of these where the tanks, sides were made from copper, copper cores yes.

I have made tanks out of brass before. I repaired some that were cast iron, one of those was a John Deere not sure how old.