48 NOVEMBER 20194-WHEEL & OFF-ROAD 4WHEELOFFROAD.COM
TECHNICAL
SOME SHINY
NEW COOLING
PARTS FOR
OUR PATINA’D
OLD FORD
BY Verne Simons [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHY VERNE SIMONS
T’S BIG, IT’S RED, IT’S A FORD, IT’S
Redferd. Our 1978 Ford F-250 has
seen many a mile of backroads
across this great country of ours,
and thus far (at least since we’ve
owned it) Redferd has kept its cool,
despite the 460 ci of pushrod V-8
powermovingthisbigoldtruckdownthe
road and trail. Still, keeping an old 4x4 cool
in the desert Southwest is always a chore.
Enter Flex-a-lite, a name you probably
recognize from the company’s decades
in the aftermarket focusing on mov-
ing air and shedding heat. To that end,
our pal s over at Flex-a - lite sent us one
of their brand-new Extruded Tube Core
Performance Radiators with integrated
dual electric fans that is a direct fit for
1966-1979 Ford F-150, F-250, and F-350
truck s. We al so received a couple of the
company’s universal stacked-plate fluid
coolers for Redferd’s auto transmission
and factory power steering system. The
installation was super-simple and a great
time to address Redferd’s old radiator hos-
es and fan belts for the upcoming Arizona
summer. Check it out.