Radiadores y piezas para Dodge Grand Caravan

Dodge Grand Caravan Radiators and Parts

Your Dodge Grand Caravan motor puts out lots of heat, and it needs efficient radiator components working together to keep things cool. If you take care of these heroic members of the cooling system team, they will surely take care of your SUV. In order to replace these Dodge Grand Caravan parts and accessories effectively, you need to know more about how they work.

Absolutely. Your Dodge radiator core and its associated parts are all that stand between your delicate engine components and heat damage. Combustion gas temperatures can run into the thousands of degrees, and if this heat goes uncontained, your engine could seize up within minutes. Your core and other components make sure this never happens. Members of the family to periodically inspect include:

• Inlet and Outlet Hoses: These form the main arteries for hot and then cool fluids moving through their cycles. On one side, the inlet hose guides hot coolant into special tanks located on the sides or top of your Caravan radiator. This hose needs to be heat-resistant and pressure-tested to ensure that it can handle hot coolant, and you should ensure that any replacements fit the same specifications. Depending on the make and model of your Grand Caravan, your inlet and outlet hoses may be molded or flexible. Molded designs fit specific vehicles and no others, so take special care when you choose your replacement upper and lower radiator hoses.
• Radiator Core: The business end of the cooling system, the core serves as a guide and cooling platform for steaming hot coolant. Formed from a variety of metal, cores route fluids according to one of several design methods that include downflow and crossflow. Which radiator-routing design you choose should depend on how you intend to use your Grand Caravan. If you do a lot of power-centric activities such as towing, off-roading, or commercial work, it may be to your advantage to choose a design with more cooling capacity. Apart from flow direction, this could include design features such as larger coolant pipes, larger overall surface area, and higher volume.
• Shrouds: Underappreciated, shrouds nevertheless form important parts of the fan blowing system.
• Vent Caps: Radiator-systems can be sealed or unsealed. Sealed systems may not have vent caps, but unsealed systems use these handy pieces of hardware to modulate important forces.
• Transmission Coolers: If your Dodge has an automatic transmission, your radiator-assembly may include a built-in transmission fluid cooler. This helps to extend the life of your transmission components by keeping the coolant cleaner and within temperature boundaries.

Shrouds and air dams are both members of the passive air-flow cooling team. The shrouds do their jobs by focusing and channeling air-flow through fan blades, rather than around them. This results in higher-efficiency operation and can actually prevent overheating during low-speed operation. Air dams, located under the Dodge Grand Caravan front bumper, kick into action when the vehicle is moving at higher speeds. They act as types of airfoils, channeling air up towards the radiator-core and the engine-block.