300 cummin radiator
What should it cost to have a radiator taken out of a 2001 bounder, 300 cumin, and have cleaned and replaced. Or is there a way to really clean the front fins without having it removed? thanks
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OLYLEN wrote:
I think Fireup is a bit light on the R&&R costs. Most book at 10 hours so I would expect near a $1000. But while its out do all belts, idler and hoses and anything else that is hard to get at. Its much cheaper at this point.
LEN
Len,
You could be right. I was going by two things. One, I pulled my own out of ours and, basically goofing around, taking breaks, and, trying for quite some time to find the drain pet-**** (Freightliner hid it inside the radiator frame, on the opposite side they told me to look) it took me right at 6 hours to pull both the CAC and the radiator.
And two, my son worked at a San Diego RV Repair center and he and or any of his team could pull the average rear radiator in just over two hours. But, as in many cases in the auto repair world, it may be "Booked out" as taking longer. That is quite often the case.
I know now that, based on the fact that I installed a drain pet **** at the lowest point in the system and, know all the angles, hidden nuts and bolts, types of tools needed etc., even I could pull ours in a bit over two hours. Without a doubt, some of them (nuts, bolts, braces, hoses, clamps, fittings, and more) are seriously hard to get to. But, if you know the right tricks and, have some specialty tools, it makes for a much easier extraction.
But, different RV repair and, Radiator shops will charge what they see fit.
Scott
