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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic
My 97 Ranger has the original rad hoses and radiator. It runs cool and there are no signs of leakage or any other reason to replace at this time. I don't drive it much and had the original timing belt replaced at 133k miles. Original plugs at 125k miles.
When you have the radiator flushed look at the tubes (you can see some in the picture) and see if they look better. A long grade climb in hot weather is a pretty good test of max capacity of your cooling system, probably OK for now but look for the first signs of trouble or you could blow the head gasket and spend alot more money than a $100 replacement radiator. Always watch all the fluids on anew purchase for at least a couple of months and make sure none of them are disappearing.
regards
Mech
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Agreed. I gotta get the money to do this first though :P