Radiator replacement

[14 gmcl83]

Well I got that familiar radiator leak well crack in the Plastic driver bottom corner is it easy to change ? The damn book time says it takes 6.5 hours that’s insane, I have done ls cam swaps faster than 6 hours start to finish .

[CamGTP]

Book time and real time never match up. They add so much time because of all the little steps for removing fans, remove each line for the oil cooler and transmission cooler.

 

I had the fans out this past summer in like 15 minutes maybe so I could clean the fins on the radiator. I was probably less than 30-40min from having the hoses off, cooler lines off and radiator out if I had a new to remove it.

 

Here is a video on removing it, it's very straight forward.

 

 

[DeePa]

Doesn’t the condenser have to come out?
 

 

[CamGTP]

No.