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When we brought my 22 touring home this spring, it was a mild day. About 70 degrees or so the car ran fine but hot. We had a motometer from one of our other her cars. the other car it runs cool. We have a waterpump on that car, have for uears (SACRILEGE!!)
Well, the 22 got home alright and didnt boil over but ran at the top of the motometer almost the whole way home.
Drained the fluids and removed the radiator and found what look to be twisted metal down the neck of the radiator. I know when I looked at the other cars you could see just the tubes and the fins like you should. On this car I can see partial fins and tubes and the other part twisted metal. I stuck a rod down the neck of the radiator to see how loose the metal was and I could not move it much. I shook the radiator and it did not rattle around so it is not completely loose. I brought it up to some of the club members and they think that it might be some baffling that came loose. What do you all think? What a radiator shop be able to repair something like this?
This picture is from the radiator ne k looking into the radiator, hence the overflow tube.

All radiators should have the plate, Ford called it a splash plate and yes yours is twisted/bent out of shape and can be fixed by a Rad shop.

Any ideas on how it could have gotten like that?

The black rod on the right sode of the picture is the choke rod I stuck in to see how loose the metal was, if anyone was wondering.

To fix the baffle plate back in place, the radiator shop may be able to do this by just removing the front plate on the top tank. If they want to take the top tank right off, you might ask them to gently rod out the core while they have it apart.

Hope this helps,
Allan from down under.

Is this a relatively simple repair?
Will the radiator shop know what to do, or is there something specific that i need to tell them?

I know that this sounds like a dumb question, but i want to make sure it is done right and i dont end up wasting my money.

You need an "old time" radiator shop. Not all shops are actually equipped to do such repairs..... radiators have become "throw-aways!"