I stand corrected!

I just looked at my '85 "all metal rad". Not all metal. It has the
plastic tanks. Still, the fasteners felt too tight on the new one.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:07 AM, neil N <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of things I noticed about installing a rad on my '81.
>
> Check fit of fan shroud fasteners (to rad) before installing. My '85
> fasteners (from orig. all metal rad) didn't fit my new Behr with
> plastic tanks. I felt these too large fasteners might've *possibly*
> stress-cracked the plastic. Possibly the holes are made too small so
> new fasteners have something to "bite" into, but I felt the '85 screws
> were too big for the new rad. *** I was swapping  parts around from
> year to year, so issue may have been unique to my engine conversion
> ***