Damn car likes ghetto parts

[Mopar1]

Well, I decide to go out and get a fan shroud at a local junkyard. I tend to have a few beverages while fiddling with the stang most of the time. Not having a shroud and working around it with the engine running gets interesting, to say the least.

So, not knowing much about these fords, stock parts, let alone aftermarket peices I get the shroud. A nice one at that. I'm in business now, not. I get home and go to work pulling off the clutch fan. I cant even get the thing between radiater and the front of the motor. B@#$tard at the yard sold me the wrong one. Screw it, damm the torpedos, this thing is going on.

Out comes the sawsall. I cut away and cut away. Finally I get it to fit. I get the fan back in and push the shroud down to attach it to the radiater. I had too many ( turkey and cokes) and to pissed by that time to realize that there was too much resistance when I was pushing that shroud down to attach it.

Looked great before I started the engine. Started the engine and heard a god awful noise. (Like when you run over a peice of wood with a lawnmower). With the engine running I get out in time to see the shroud rip off the top attachements ( only the top was attached) and get jammed. Rat F%$#ing Bas@#$rd. It didnt have clearance with the top of the fan.

Out comes the sawsall one last time and I cut the clearance in the top that you see in the pic.

Two days later while at the car wash. I see a guy with a 5.0 GT. I walked over and asked him can I look at your fan shroud. He opens the hood and I see a radiater thats half as thick as mine. I ask him to look at mine and he says its not a stock radiater. I said sh^t no wonder. Though I did get a bizzare look when he noticed MY shroud.

I should have put the electric one back-on. Seems like all the complicated and involved crap I do to it (i.e. Typhoon intake, lentech VB) goes on slicker than snot.

BTW couple of months ago while changing tranny coolers, I used wire cutters to clip off the plastic pull through tabs. One too many again. Punched a pin hole in that same radiater.

JB weld does wonders.

sorry so long. Im amazed that I used to race a mopar at one time. Guess im just hard headed nowadays