Radiator Shop

Here’s some before & after pics of a remote oil cooler, or heat exchanger, for a recycling center. This is the same style & type of cooler we service for the mills at some of our mining customers as well. The oil cooler came in with substantial external fouling with oil & debris due to [...]

Here’s some pics of a custom copper & brass radiator we built for a 1946 International Rat Rod truck. This radiator will be cooling a bored & stroked 496 cubic inch big block Chevy engine that we built. We fabricated the aluminum fan shroud & mounted a high performance sixteen inch Spal electric fan. Motor [...]

Here’s some before & after pics of a heavy duty aluminum oil cooler that came in for cleaning & repairing. The core is a bar-and-plate design while the tanks, or end caps, are constructed of thick aluminum extrusions. After thoroughly cleaning the cooler inside & out we pressure test to locate the leaks. Once the [...]

Here’s some pics of a repair we did to a MESABI radiator on the machine. The machine is a Komatsu WE1850 loader which suffered some damaged to the radiator from some rocks & debris. In addition to some of the tubes & seals leaking we also found a crack in the steel bottom tank. After [...]

Here’s some before & after pics of a Caterpillar 18M grader radiator hardnose cooling package we rebuilt. All of the cooling system components were removed from the hardnose for cleaning, repairing & rebuilding. The aluminum radiator, aftercooler, oil coolers & all of the other components are reinstalled into the hardnose & ready for another round [...]

Here are some before, during & after pics of a Case Backhoe radiator we overhauled. The radiator came in leaking in the headers. It is an all metal copper and brass radiator. Both the top & bottom tanks were removed so we could re-run both headers. After the headers were run, we reset the tanks [...]

Here’s some pics of a couple of Komatsu haul truck radiators we picked up for rebuilding. The radiator on the back of the trailer is for an 830E & the radiator on the front of the trailer is for a 930E-5. Both radiators are MESABI's. Motor Mission Machine & Radiator 5435 Desert Point Dr. Las [...]

Here’s some pics of a Hitachi EX5600-6 Shovel MESABI Radiator we did a complete overhaul rebuild to. After separating the high temp & low temp radiator halves all the tubes were removed for reconditioning. There are just over a thousand individual MESABI radiator tubes & each one gets a thorough cleaning inside & out and [...]

Here’s some before & after pics of a radiator out of a 2250 Manitowoc crawler crane. The radiator core is a mechanically bonded, or MB, type unit which is common for locomotive radiator applications. We disassembled the radiator & did a complete rod & repair overhaul. Motor Mission Machine & Radiator 5435 Desert Point Dr. [...]

Here's some pics of a conventional sectional core radiator for a Komatsu shovel we rebuilt. The radiator is comprised of a low-temp half & a high-temp half which is basically two radiators to make up the complete assembly. The cores of the radiator are conventional type with flat continued fins in an MB (mechanically bonded) [...]