What is this bar for?

Mavrick

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What is this for, and can it go?

Support Bar Thing

 

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Hey Mav not sure what bar your refering too. The big metal piece is rad support and integral part of chassis and the front piece is what the grill attaches to and its fiberglass. You got have both these items

 

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looks like a PS cooler support? I dunno

 

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yeah from what i see its the front part of teh car basically....1 important thing i seen in the pic is it holds your hood latch in place..now where would u put that if u didnt have it...and unless u want to eat a nice 302 if god forbid u ever get into a front end collision i say keep it...plus liek said b4 its basically teh front of your Car

 

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If you are refering to the bar with a tab bolted to the rad support, it is the PS cooler. It's actually a tube that PS fluid runs through. It goes through the rad support inthe bottom corner and connects to a hoes the the PS pump.

 

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Myke86GT said:

If you are refering to the bar with a tab bolted to the rad support, it is the PS cooler. It's actually a tube that PS fluid runs through. It goes through the rad support inthe bottom corner and connects to a hoes the the PS pump.

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Mav, based on your other thread, i think Myke hit it on the head. and he is right on (Mav's P.S. stuff was a mess from the previous owner). the world's most effective p.s cooler. LOL

 

MustangPunk302

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Just use a tranny cooler... Same fluid.. lol

 

Mavrick

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Myke86GT said:

If you are refering to the bar with a tab bolted to the rad support, it is the PS cooler. It's actually a tube that PS fluid runs through. It goes through the rad support inthe bottom corner and connects to a hoes the the PS pump.

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Ya that was the piece i was referring to... i guess i should have described it more clearly

Can i bypass and scrap the PS cooler.. pro's and con's? Has anybody done it?

Thanks

 

MustangPunk302

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Mavrick said:

Ya that was the piece i was referring to... i guess i should have described it more clearly

Can i bypass and scrap the PS cooler.. pro's and con's? Has anybody done it?

Thanks

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I dunno why you couldn't it does a pretty piss poor job I bet, though the only con of cousre is your tranny fluid becoming to hot, which just like an Auto tranny will kill your seals in the power steering system.

 

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The way I see it and always have the little loop of tube isn't doing JACK!!! I remove them all the time with no ill effects..

Grover hit it on the head first..

 

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Perky did you just block them off or did you just run a small line from the inlet to the outlet?

 

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MustangPunk302 said:

Perky did you just block them off or did you just run a small line from the inlet to the outlet?

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There is a line running into the cooler.. I just removed it and connected it to the line at the pump which is where the cooler would have ran to...


You have to continue the loop... Can not just block off..

 

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Thanks for the replies perky, going to re-route mine off after i clean up my pump.

 

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last time i checked and remembered the PS "cooler" was just a hose that ran to teh front then connected to a metal tube then looped and back to another rubber hose...and your talking abou thte bar closer to teh bottom of teh pic right?

 

Mavrick

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Black331Stang: Yep, i just finished removing it. What a PITA that was... there is aonther bracket holding the bottom to the lower rad support.. tight spot. Clears things up a bit more though.