1929 Chrysler 65 Radiator--correct core material?

[Gasket]

Hi All,

What is the correct core material for 1929 Chrysler series 65?

I'm guessing not honeycomb.

Auburn / diamond? (Are they the same thing?)

What I have now--that needs recored--is a crude job done in v-cell, which I doubt is original.

Thanks for any guidance.

Yours, Jack 'Gasket'

[1930 Kram66]

Hi

Over the years I have owned/restored three Chryslers - one 65 sedan a 66 roadster and a 66 tourer( my current project, do not have the first two now) 

All had honey comb radiators. Looking in my 66 Instruction book under cooling system it states the following- "The radiator is of the cellular type".

Here is a factory photo of the front of a 66 hopefully you can see it is a honeycomb type. I would be very confident that the 65 would be the same. 

Sorry I dont have any photos of a 65 but I am pretty sure, well at least here in Australia model 65 and 66 cars came originally with honeycomb radiators.

Hope this helps      cheers Mark

[Narve N]

Honeycomb is the answer. I believe the exact cell size is hard to get, but more than one European vendor had a visually similar pattern where each cell is 2 mm shorter than the original. I have used that pattern for two Series 65 radiators and believe it would pass as original even on Pebble Beach. This is a radiator before with original pattern:

 

[Gasket]

Hi 1930 Kram66 and Narve N,

 

Thanks for the great pictures--just what I needed; though, shouldn't honeycomb have 6-sides? 

(Looks like diamond shape to me(?))

 

Thanks again.

 

Yours,

Jack

[Narve N]

You're probably right. I always have referred to the style as honeycomb but might well be mistaken.

 

[Gasket]

Hi Narve,

You're not wrong. From browsing the internet, it appears that the term, 'honeycomb', is used somewhat generically. For example, one manufacturer, Brassworks, thebrassworks.net, in their descriptions of hex-honeycomb, v-cell, and diamond say that "They are commonly referred to as "honeycomb cores" but the patterns are varied."

Thanks again, Jack

[leomara]

Gasket, this will sound simple.  I spent quite a bit of time chasing around with my 1928 Model 72 radiator after the first place I went to said the core was bad and needed replacing.  Well, that was another adventure finding out that this "Auburn" type core is only duplicated in Europe and to re-core the radiator would cost Thou$ands.  As a last resort an old time radiator shop was willing to try a repair with "stop leak" and it worked.  I'm sure my radiator is not as good as new but for the driving I will be doing it should suffice.