FOLLOWUP...don't you hate when folks never resolve these things?
Alliance Coach...big thanks to to Brett, Bill Harvey, Brian Smith (Tech) for their hard work. Denise for being so cheerful!
Ten hours labor to remove and replace the radiator. Brian worked outside which allowed us to stay in the coach (FT where else would we stay). It was a big job, I do most all my own work, a lot of this was four hands. They allowed me to take the radiator out for repair. Cedric, at Becks Radiator in Brooksville, FL in business since 1958, real old time radiator shop. "No problem"....one day and $125 later we were ready to re install.
BAD NEWS... the radiator is a Monaco only piece, made by TransFlo, no longer in production, (this from the factory) spares increasingly expensive and hard to find, if at all. The rad is almost Frieghtliner, but just enough that a FL will not fit the frame.
Plan ahead, be proactive on this issue. You may not be by a good shop to R&R, or even harder to find a real radiator guy anymore. You could be hung up for a very extended period of time.
Mine now has 1/8' hardware wire screen protection in the outside grill and the back of the fan shroud as well. Whatever little piece of road debris was kicked up into the inside of the rad bounced off a fan blade and holed the radiator from the inside! Freakish in over 400k miles of RV travel...but could have beeen a lot more trouble at other times and places.
IF you've been thinking screen protection as I was in the past... do it!! This little adventure cost about four days and $1500. It could have been a LOT worse. The hardware wire was $20...duhhh!