Cooling Mod Installation How-To

[Zack]

Fast forward to the wiper cowl, upper and lower intake removed and coolant drained.
Use a 1/4" punch (or similar) and hammer down closest to the front of the engine. It will start angling itself out. Use a channel locks as pictured to remove it from the bore





Shove a small piece of towel down the bore, then remove the factory sealant lingering. Then clean the bore with a scotch brite pad and brake clean (be sure to remove the towel after cleaning)




Dry fit everything first (pretty much as pictured) then mark the fittings to the block as shown



Coat the fitting lightly with silicone



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[Zack]

Line the fittings up then drive them into the head, flush with the block.
Use a 3/8" flat punch. You will booger up the solder and brass installing them, but it will seal just fine







Connect the fittings and clamp them:



You will need to trim the lower intake if you installed the passenger fitting as shown. Eaton manifolds will need no trimming



Purchase hose number 80404 from Advance to connect the drivers fitting to the rest of the system, shown later
The right angle portion of the hose will need to be trimmed down



Use a piece of hose to make a heat shield from the egr tube

[Zack]

Install the wiper cowl assembly before splicing the T fitting in.



Using the provided Tee, splice into the pictured hose. You will have to remove about 1/2 to 3/4" of hose for the Tee to fit perfectly.
Clamp it up and you're done

[03Merc]

Thanks a lot!


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[Zack]

I'm not answering dumb questions sorry

[guspech750]

I'm not answering dumb questions sorry

I know DTR's are slow and probably the engine barely gets above room temp. Do I need this too?






PS. Nice write up bubs.

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[03Merc]

Haha, it's ok!


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[Zack]

Thanks knine for the donor car

[Sactown]

Awesome thanks!!

[fordnut02]

Great Write up and Pictures Zack Thanks
I'm NA STOCK , so I do need all 3 fittings ?
paypal to order Kit ?

[justbob]

I liked your old video of how to remove the freeze plugs better than these pics.

It made me whaf.

On a side note, looking at the heater hoses I see now I reversed them the last time at the heater core. Not like it matters anyhow. Oops..


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[Sactown]

Great Write up and Pictures Zack Thanks
I'm NA STOCK , so I do need all 3 fittings ?
paypal to order Kit ?

Yes...post 118 in the for sale thread http://www.mercurymarauder.net/forum...&postcount=118

Paypal info is in that thread also

[8UWITH6]

I did not know you still worked on BLUE cars. Nice write up. Gotta do the wife's car soon............ because lazy.

[ledzilla]

Two questions...

1) What kind of silicone was used to seal the new plugs?
2) What was used to trim the manifold?

[Bruce Wayne]

I was wondering about the silicone too, also what size and type of hose, Thanks Zack, great pictures, I'm going to do this mod this weekend