Mike H.

I have a '68 Cutlass with a three row Harrison radiator. I recently purchased a set of transmission cooler lines from Inline Tube. They do not come close to matching. The distance/spread between the lines on my radiator is about 12.5 inches. Can anyone confirm if this is the length on their '68 radiator?
Thanks, Mike

MDchanic

Yeah. This is a problem.

I cannot definitely tell you the right spacing for your car, but if I recall, the sixties cars had the two radiator fittings spaced farther apart, while sometime in the seventies they moved them closer together.

Very often replacement radiators have the closer-spaced fittings, and it is a PIA.
I don't know the solution (I'm not a highfalutin' restorer, so I just re-bend the lines), but I'm sure someone else here has a better solution.

- Eric

Mike H.

Thanks Eric....I didn't know that later radiators had the narrower spacing. My original lines were trash, so I bought news. Hate to start re-bending if I can re-order. Does anyone else possibly know for a 1968 Cutlass?

Indy_68_S

~12.5" is what it is in my (what I believe to be the original ) 4 core rad ...

Mike H.

Thanks Indy 68,

Appreciate you taking the time to look at your '68. Apparently, Inline Tube sent the wrong lines.

Thanks again, Mike

Indy_68_S

Happy to help...! We '68 guys have to stick together !

ILT may not know they are the wrong lines. I've run into quite a bit of parts that (even the major) vendors think are correct for '68-'72, and may be correct for '69 ...or '69-'72, but are not correct for '68s.

Not sure if that's the case here, though. But, '68's do have a lot of oddball/one-year-only parts ....