Ogre

Does anyone here use the Gano coolant filter or any other coolant filter. I just bought an aluminum radiator and thinking about installing some type of filter to keep the new radiator from getting clogged up. How does the Gano filter install? Any problems with leaks? Thanks.

Mustangdemon67

filter installs easy and is sealed good. just cut the hose a little bit, no need to be able to see the whole filter but its on you. that thing wasnt cheap, but its saves you way more then what you pay for it, good investment.

*i think you can see mine in my sig, its the green thing [8D]

JamesW

I'm running the Australian Tefba filter

http://www.midnightdsigns.com/Mustan...%20Filter.html

69thunder

A filter is overkill. If the cooling system is maintained properly and flushed often you should not have any problems.

Ogre

It might be overkill if you have a brand new or rebuilt engine, but my engine hasn't been rebuilt since I don't know when. I bought the car with it installed. When I took the heads and intake off recently, discovered that it's not in the best of shape. Lots of gunk built up under the intake manifold and the water jackets in the block, heads, and intake where full of crud. Every time I flushed my old radiator, I got lots of rust and crud out. I'm not going to rebuild the engine anytime soon and don't want to mess up the aluminum radiator I just bought.

I have to change my old radiator because it leaks too bad and can't be fixed. One of the reasons I went with an aluminum radiator is because it is cheaper than going with a stock replacement. The local auto parts stores can't touch the price (even with a discount).

It seams like good insurance to install one for only like $35 to $45.

Mustangdemon67

a filter for your radiator is overkill? i disagree

plcdude

If the motor has many miles on it and the coolant has not been well maintained for the life of the motor I would say a filter is cheap insurance. It will be much simpler to remove and clean a filter that clean out a clogged radiator.

My $.02 worth.

az1966

built mine out of a 8" spagetti strainer, cut the wire out of the frame, measured the inlet on the radiator, got a 2ft piece of wood dowel cut the strainer " mesh" in half, wraped it arounf the dowel, measured the depth of the radiator inlet from end of inlet to front of radiator, marked the "wraped" mesh for thet length, gave it approx a inch or so then cut the extra length off, then cut the bulk of the over lap off, kept the over lap part pointed towards the battery, so as to have 360 degree full flow, folded the "extra" lenght over the inlet and put the hose on, it's true you can't just clean it out like the other filters, but you have great flow, the mesh catches just about everything, including weird looking stuff and the engine keeps cool cuase of the 360 flow effect,,,, best of all it only takes approx 125 minutes to pull hose and clean out and the spagetti strainer only costs approx 6 bucks and you can make 2 filters out of 1 strainer,,,,, been working for me like a champ for the last 6 months

69thunder

If you have that much crud in your cooling system what happens when the filter gets plugged? Back to square one? Just curious.