The replacement is still ongoing but going fine so far. It always takes me longer cause, well, I don't know what I'm doin so I double/triple check everything.
Plus, my weekends are typically interupt driven so I work on it in 30 minute bursts between interuptions.
Unfortunately, I'm not giong to have time this weekend to get all the bypass and heater hoses so they'll have to wait til next weekend. I don't know when/if the hoses have ever been replaced so I had to cut the Upper and Lower off. The thermostat housing is nasty so I'm trying to clean that up. I had to take out the coolant reservoir and the air intake plastic piece to be able to get the old radiator/fan out and the new one in without mangling the fins.
I also can't figure out exactly how many bypass and heater hoses I have. My helms manual shows a bunch of differnet configurations (none of which look exactly like my car), the guys at autozone weren't sure and I haven't found it specified in the Haynes manual. Not an immediate concern though.
One of the heater/bypass hoses (that I'm not fiddling with right now) has a little device in the middle of the hose. Pictures attached. I haven't been able to figure out what it is but I haven't spent much time on it either. I'm thinkin maybe it has something to do with the heat controls.