So my family has worked on Chevy's since my grandfather's 66 Vette, but with all the plastics etc these things are now nightmares to work on. Between my family being old school chevy and my boyfriend knowing Honda's I'm kinda nervous.

Stupid ice and snow in vermont has damaged my radiator and it now needs to be replaced. After finding a replacement radiator online (dealer wanted over $300 for just the part) I'm trying to see if anyone has done this before and might have some hints.

I can get the plastics off the top, but it almost looks like the radiator would be easier to take out from underneath. Please help I feel really stupid, but this is the newest Chevy I've ever worked on (2006).
Thanks!!

 

I am pretty sure you have to take it out from underneath! You will have to get the front up on jack stands. There are two lower mounts and once those are removed and the hoses are removed, as well as any other attached bracketing it should slide out. Then just slide the new one back in its place and reattach everything.

Be carefull when refilling with coolant to. Keep an eye on the level during the first, start up and heating cycle.

 

Question. How did you know that your Radiator needed to be replaced? Mine does not look amazing either because of Road Salt and other things. Are there signs I should look out for?

P.S
I know $300 is a lot of money but if you had a Civic lets say that Radiator would cost Well over $800 from the Honda Dealer

 

I knew the radiator needed to be replaced because it was leaking fluid on the ground as fast as I could pour it in and was cracked on the bottom as well as bent in. You shouldn't need to replace it just because it looks dirty and shitty, only if you're having problems.

Ahhh but a civic radiator is easily available online like on ebay cheap. I bought a Koyo radiator for my CRX for only $300 on ebay and it's a performance radiator. There wasn't even anything available for the Cobalt like that.

 

Thanks, you made me feel better about my Rad. Im going to put up a screen to catch prevent the crap from hitting it.

I was talking about a 2007 Civic VS a 2007 Cobalt. A rad will be way more at the Dealer for the Honda.
Older Hondas parts are really cheap and easy to come by for many reasons. My 90's Civic was insanly cheap to fix!

 

Take the top plastics off, Take the hoses off, then remover the top brackets and it just pulls right up through. Or you can pull it up enough to get it out from the bottom brackets then take it down through the bottom.

 

bought my car crashed, radiator was 220 on ebay and remover the bumper and upper rad support 1-2-3 piece of cake