Leeann wrote:
Believe me, I (literally) feel your elbow pain. No really, I do. Especially today.
This is what's going on in mine (broke it Jun 10, surgery Jun 17). Fully healed but still working out the stiffness and kinks...
I tripped on my top concrete step (of five) and landed on the concrete walkway below). I chose to land on my right (I'm lefty) elbow rather than my head.
So it's cracked from the distal humurus (the top part of the elbow) up to the big break you can see, then it exploded, creating a displaced break there. He had to put 7 plates and 13 screws in, along with 2cc of demineralized bone matrix.
Holy heck, Leeann! That looks like my buddy's arm, when he shattered his Humerus in 13 places in Kuwait. The doc tells me that the surgery has an 80% success rate, but at this point 80% is better than the 100% pain I have had for the last few years. I hope you heal well.
I made a huuuuuuuge mistake. I've been picking parts from an '84 B150 and thought I'd be slick and use the fan, fan clutch and fan shroud. Well, the fan shroud wouldn't fit my radiator (different mounting points and studs vs. bolts), so I took the brackets off of the '84 radiator and had them brazed onto my radiator.
I got the radiator back today, tried mounting it to the van, and it wouldn't fit. Even the shroud wouldn't fit, because my radiator is thicker, so the bracket sits back an extra 3/8"-1/2", so I quickly called the radiator shop and they thankfully still have the old brackets, soooooo the radiator is going back in on Monday and getting the old brackets brazed back on.
You might ask, "Fred, why the heck are you going to this trouble?" Well, the original cooling setup didn't have a fan clutch and the fan clutch setup I found at the junkyard is too big in diameter to fit in the original shroud.
The solution was to find a smaller diameter fan/fan clutch setup, which I did. The part number is Mopar #2863216, which was used on the big block Mopars and it has seven blades. The diameter of the fan is 18.5", which is the same as the non-fan clutch fan, so it will clear the original shroud, which is 19.5" in diameter.
While some newer engine compartment parts fit my '75, it's really hit and miss. BTW, the A/C condenser from the '84 is one of those parts that does NOT fit. Why Monaco ordered their MB300's as non-A/C van chassis is beyond me, but I don't like that they then installed aftermarket A/C in them. Seems like it would have been easier to order it already installed.
