sjholt
Henderson, NV
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A rear radiator would be a deal breaker for me!
I do ALL my own work and a rear radiator sucks.
Skip
1996 32' Monaco Windsor DP
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Don Don
Pleasant Grove, AL {Suburb of Birmingham}
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fourfurz wrote:The largest benefit from a side radiator is protection from flying debris kicked up by the tires. Another benefit is less fouling from goop thrown off the engine and ingested in the radiator, still a third is easy access to the engine for maintenance. Usually the better coaches have side radiators.
The better Coaches have side Radiators! I don't think so.
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DevinPhilips
Cloud 10, Pangea
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I have the side radiator and would definitely recommend going that way if you can!
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Don Don
Pleasant Grove, AL {Suburb of Birmingham}
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A rear radiator has no more problems than the side mount. Like any other radiator, they should be cleaned off about once a year. If side radiators were so much better, why is the majority of them rear mounted? There is no economical advantage for them to be built either way. It is just an arbitrary design decision made by the manufacturer. We had a friend with a side mount on a Country Coach and he had a stubborn leak he was constantly chasing down. Sometimes it is just the luck of the draw.
Also, the rear of my coach is no dirtier than the front or sides after a trip. The sides behind the rear wheels get real dirty. The front catches all the bugs and road dirt from cars ahead, and the side catches all the road dirt etc. kicked up by the rear tires.
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bullydogs1
New Jersey
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Mine has a rear but I did want a side...but I had to compromise something...I looked underneath the coach and there is a screen to keep rocks from being upthrown into it....and the tube that is there is longer and pointed down.....but I intend to clean the thing once a year at maintenance time....The rest of the coach is just a blast...the looks I get when I drive it down the street are to die for...and the people that work at my brother's yard where I store it just drool....Even my brother himself drools over the darn thing....and he knew I was going to get one and didn't think anything of it then. Im going to have to let him use it one time though, but he does know these things.. For the price of a locked storage yard with police driving by it many times a day, it's worth it.
Stuart and Stella Denning
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pfunk
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It cools just fine and I get extra storage space on the left,,, the few times I really have to work on it oh well have to work on it from the top or the side thats actually a pro for me
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Twomed
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I work on both. Some sides are easier than a hard rear, some rears are easy too. Depends on the builder. Most folks are not going to be in there enough to matter either way. A real kicker $$$ wise, most rears are just stock truck rads mounted backwards and realtively cheap, if you know where to look. Most sides are custom built to manuf specs and very $$$$$$ expensive if you ever have to replace one. Also some side rad owners look at the outside, think they are clean, and run them way past when they really should be cleaned. Finding a side rad with a North/South bed is kinda the best of both worlds. 
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Deen
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There Brett goes again, disturbing the thread with real, honest to goodness FACTS!! 
I hate it when that happens! 
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Deen
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Don Don wrote:fourfurz wrote:The largest benefit from a side radiator is protection from flying debris kicked up by the tires. Another benefit is less fouling from goop thrown off the engine and ingested in the radiator, still a third is easy access to the engine for maintenance. Usually the better coaches have side radiators.
The better Coaches have side Radiators! I don't think so.
OK, lets put it this way, the cheaper coaches usually have rear radiators. They have to cut corners someplace and this is one way to do it.
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Johng
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Don Don wrote:fourfurz wrote:The largest benefit from a side radiator is protection from flying debris kicked up by the tires. Another benefit is less fouling from goop thrown off the engine and ingested in the radiator, still a third is easy access to the engine for maintenance. Usually the better coaches have side radiators.
The better Coaches have side Radiators! I don't think so.
I agree with Don Don, not necessarily the better coaches have side radiators, it would not be a deal breaker, all coaches require maintenance and that is the key.
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