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Originally Posted by 71CHEVYSHORTBED402
Dumb question of the day (pull pad for surprise). Yeah rivets and thanks for the help.
Looks like there are two bracket position options in the core support. Mine were on the outside, so that's where I bent the core support using a crescent wrench. Crossing my fingers the new radiator doesn't want the inners.
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GM had 3 radiators with 2 different brackets. GM had a narrow bracket and a wider bracket.
The standard radiator was a 2 row. It used the narrow brackets and it also used those "inside" mounting holes your referring too.
The 3 row used the narrower brackets as well (if you've seen a factory two row, they look funny because they use the same tanks as the 3 row, but have one less core, so the tanks stick out like 1/2" past the core). The three row is wider than the 2 row and uses the same "outside" bracket holes as the 4 row.
The 4 row uses the wide brackets and the outside bracket holes.