How to Replace Radiator 2011-14 Chrysler 200

Now you can pull the wheel off, or you can just turn the wheel to get it out of your way. I'm just going to use a seven millimeter socket, take this bolt out here. There may be one right there, and take that one out as well.

And then take a trim tool, and there's pushpins, there's one right here, there should be two right there, take those out, and there should be one right here as well. You can take that one out, move this panel back, just grab the bumper, slide it over here, pull this piece of the bumper out.

You can access the negative battery terminal right here. I get ten millimeter socket with an extension, and just connect the negative side. You don't want to disconnect the positive side, it's always better to disconnect the negative side so you don't arc anything out. Listen this up a couple turns, should be able to grab the terminal and just wiggle it up and out of the way.

I want to take this panel down. If you have this vehicle, you might have a panel that goes right here with other fasteners, this vehicle doesn't have it, but take that one down first. And I'm gonna use a seven millimeter socket, take all these screws out, and there's a pushpin on both sides on the ends, just take a straight blade screwdriver or a trim tool, try to pry it out. If the pushpin's not in too bad of shape, you can use a Phillips head screwdriver and loosen it up that way. Slide the center out, slide the other piece out.

There's a couple pushpins right here, take those out on both sides, just use a trim tool, slide the center part out, down, out underneath here. Take these three ten millimeter bolts out, just use a ten millimeter socket. Now I can grab this panel and just slide it out.

Now on the passenger side of the radiator at the base there is a drain, it's a petcock. What I can use is some pliers or some needle nose, just to try to loosen this up a little bit. Just be careful, and you want to make sure you do this when the engine is not hot, you don't want to do it when it's hot because it'll spray out. Just put a drain bucket underneath here, there we go.

The drain, I'll let that drain from up top to make the coolant come out a little quicker. I'm gonna take this coolant cap off, just slide that off. Disconnect this connector right here, just push it down on the tab, slide it up.

Loosen up this worm clamp, to get a straight blade screwdriver or an eight millimeter socket. Slide this snorkel off, just like that, set it out of the way. Then we'll take this hose, this air intake breather, slide that off.

Now I'm gonna remove this bolt right here, it's a ten millimeter socket. Take this pushpin off right here, just use a trim tool underneath here, slide that out. We can grab the whole airbox, you should be able to slide it straight up, pull it up.

I'm gonna remove any bolts on the side here, there's two right here, they may be one down here.

We're gonna take the bumper off. I'm gonna use the seven millimeter socket, tip those out and just grab the bumper right here, just slide out, and it's clipped in all along here. Now I'll take these pushpins out, there was one right there, take that out, and then right there just use the a trim tool, and then take these ones off as well.

And use a 10mm socket and take these two bolts out on the side, and I'm going to support the bumper when I do this. Goes out and I can grab the bumper, lift up and just slide it off.

I'm gonna take these two bolts out, use a ten millimeter socket, and this bracket is gonna be loose right here. We can take this hose off right here, sometimes you can just twist it off or you might need a pic over there.

Now I'm gonna disconnect the upper radiator hose from the radiator. I need to remove the hose clamp with some hose clamp pliers.

Sometimes they break because they get pretty brittle. Now I just grab the radiator hose, we can look back and forth, you might have to get a pic in there and try to loosen it up, and you could just slide this out of the way.

Now we're gonna disconnect the fan electrical connectors. I'm just gonna use a pic, get underneath the connector here, there's a little tab right there, we're just getting underneath it, slide it out, and then we'll do the same with the other one.

Now I'm gonna remove these harness retainers right here, just use a trim tool, slide these out, sometimes they break, slide those out right there, right there, and right here.

Now I'm gonna remove this connector, just get behind here with the trim tool, slide that out. We'll disconnect the connector right here, you just push down on this tab and push that tab, then you can move this ratcheting mechanism and slide the connector out, just connect that.

We can disconnect this connector right here, push down on that tab and try to slide it out, sometimes you need a screwdriver to help out, there we go, just slide this stuff out of the way.

There's a wire retainer right here, you can try to use a trim tool, or I'm just gonna use a pry bar to pry this off. Use some needlenose pliers, try to pull this off, and that's good, put that out of the way.

Now there's two screws, one right here, I'm gonna use a T25, remove that screw, and then same on the other side, one right there.

Now I'm just gonna try to pull the radiator and the fan shroud towards the inside of the car, you just use a little pry bar and just try to pry this down a little bit, if that gets stuck, do that on both sides.

Now I'm just going to use a trim tool, there's some pushpins in the top of the fan shroud, just take those pushpins out up, sometimes they break.

All right, now we can separate that panel right there. A lot of those broke, so I'll just have to replace those with new ones. And then there's clips right here, and on the other side I'm just gonna try to grab the fan and push down on those clips, slide the fan shroud up. Do the same on this side.

Just got to take a pry bar, put a pry bar in here to hold the radiator and the condenser forward. Try to pry this out. If this wiring harness is in your way, you can remove these wire hold downs. I'm going to use a quarter inch socket and remove those. We can grab the wiring harness and just start it out, slip it out over there, and grab the fan and just slide it out. There you go.

I'll just pull this shield off right here, set it aside. Now I'm gonna remove the lower radiator hose. I'm just gonna use a cable style hose clamp remover, just line that up on the hose clamp. I'll just move the hose clamp. Use a regular style hose clamp pliers, makes it a little bit easier. With that loose, and I can just grab the radiator hose. I do have a drain bucket underneath in case any coolant comes out. Slide the hose off, a little bit of coolant.

I can remove these two bolts out of the front of the A/C condenser. Now it's recommended that you remove the refrigerant out of the AC condenser and then disconnect these hoses and then do it that way, but if you don't have an AC machine that's not going to be that easy. So I'm going to show you how to do it without removing the refrigerant.

Take these bolts out, use a 10mm socket. And there's one more bolt on the passenger side of the radiator that connects to this junction block for the AC system. I'm just gonna use a ten millimeter ratchet wrench, get behind here and pull that bolt out.

With one hand I'm just gonna grab the top of the radiator and try to tilt it back a little bit, then grab the condenser. I'll just slide it up over here, slide it up over there, try to get it off these clips over here and off this clip right here. Just slide it forward a little bit. That's separated now, that's gonna stay right there.

You can grab the radiator and just slide up. If you can get these mounts off that would help. Get that mount off there, and get it off the other side as well.

And just slide up on the radiator. I'm gonna have to move some stuff out of your way a little bit, just be careful with the condenser, you don't want to stab it or anything. Sometimes taking off the lower rubber mount helps out and get past the transmission lines, and just slide it out this way, and there you go.

The new radiator, I'm gonna install the clips pretty much where the old ones were on the old radiator, so match it up to the old one and install those. I'm gonna put these lower pads on because they are directional, so put these on the feet of the radiator and then they go on like this, and same on the other side.

Take these covers off, and slide the radiator pretty much the way it came out. Just be careful, if you struggle a lot in this area where these transmission cooler lines are, you could take those transmission cooler lines off and just reinstall them. Just slide that in position, then you can come to the front.

I'll take the condenser line, the clip up over here, and do the same on this side, and on this side it's the upper clip, not the lower clip, that's for different types of vehicles. Go and we can slide these, these hold downs on, on the top, the rubber bushings, just push the radiator forward. Just be careful, you could put these on before you did the condenser if you, it's easier, just like that, and same with this one, just like that.

I just want to make sure the feet are all the way down, those rubber bushings that go on the bottom the radiator, make sure those are in position, and we can slide this back. I'm gonna get these bolts started on the outside first, and before I tighten those up I want to get this one started on the inside, then I'll tighten this one down first, and then the front - now I'm gonna reinstall this lower radiator hose.

You could do this after you put the fan back in, but it might be kind of hard to get to, it's pretty easy to access it right now. And it's also a good idea to replace these hose clamps, but we're just gonna reuse ours.

You know, take the fan shroud, keep these wires out of the way, I'm gonna just slide this in position, and there's clips on the bottom of the radiator, then you have to clip those in, so make sure those line up. So this right here has to line up, and on the top, that one's gonna line up as well, on both sides, so with those lined up.

Then you can just take the fan shroud and just push it down, and it should click in place right there. And I'll take this panel right here, line this up. I got some new pushpins, line those up, push them in. Now that's all in.

You know, we can push the radiator back in position, just wiggle it from both sides, and there's a slot right there that a little tabs gonna come through. I might need to push it down a little bit, just use a screwdriver, just like that. Put the screws back in. I'll get that one started and get this one started as well, and then tighten them down.

Now get this harness lined up and get this retainer installed right here, press that on, and this man harness, move this over. It will get these screws back into the retainers, or the hold downs for the wiring harness, and tighten them down.

I'll reconnect these connectors right here, connect this big junction connector, and you push it in, then you fold this handle down, lock it in place. Then I can push it right there and connect these wires into position right there. Connect the connector for the fan right here and lock that one in.

Reinstall its coolant hose in position, bracket, it's gonna go under here. Oh, it goes under the wiring harness. Get that lined up, get these two bolts started right, there, right there. Tighten these right, make sure you don't pinch the wiring harness.

Now put the upper radiator hose back on over here with the hose clamp. That's good, just give it a wiggle, make sure it's tight. Take this hose that goes to the reservoir and slide that back on there.

And then we'll slide this bumper back in position, make sure this is all lined up. Take the bolts, I'll get these two bolts started right here and right here, and before I tighten those up I'll just get these pushpins in. No I'll tighten these bolts down.

Now grab the bumper from the side, just line everything up right here, down, lined up there, and tap it in. Now install these screws on the side here, and if you had another one down there, install that one, tighten them up.

The airbox, get this lined up in position, it's two little, two little tabs that line up on the bottom. Push down on those tabs, line those up, and push this, push this hose on right here, breather hose. Tighten this worm clamp down, plug this connector in. Just all the bolt right here, snug it up, and push pin right here.

Now reinstall the lower shield, supply this in position, and install the screws.

And these up and install these push pins on the corners and put the pushpins in right here, right here on both sides, lock them down, and then install these three bolts, tighten them down, and then if you have another shield that goes right here, install that.

Now we can reconnect the negative side of the battery. Just take the terminal, put it on the battery, just take a ten millimeter socket and extension, get it on the battery terminal and tighten it up, and just grab the battery cable, make sure it's tight. That's good.

Now be a little bit easier to get this on if you put the inner shield in first, line that up and line the bumper back up. All right, reinstall this screw and the one down there, tighten it up. All this pushpin right here, right there, if you have one right there, install that, and then these two as well.

Remove the radiator cap if you didn't have it off already. I'm gonna use a funnel. I'm gonna use this adapter first. You don't necessarily have to do this, but it makes it a lot easier. Check your owner's manual so you can add the appropriate coolant.

Once the air has burped out, we can do is squeeze some of the pipes, the upper radiator hoses, see if any more air comes out, and at this point we're going to leave the level right there, and we're going to start the vehicle.

I want to turn the heat all the way to full blast, I can have it coming out the vents, and turn the blower on medium. And I want to constantly check and make sure I get heat coming out of the vents. I want to monitor the temperature gauge, make sure it doesn't go above into the hot range, so constantly checking on that. Then I'm gonna constantly check the level out here, making sure the level of coolant does not get too low.

So it's been running about 10 minutes, my upper radiator hose is really hot, so that's good, the thermostats have opened. So my temp gauge is right where it's supposed to be, which is good. So if you didn't have a lot of heat coming out of the vents but the temperature was still okay, probably still have a little bit of an air pocket.

We can do is throttle the accelerator up to about 2,000 rpm, hold it there for a little bit. You want to constantly check the level outside, maybe you can have a friend looking at that while you're doing this. Hold it there for a little bit, and then you should be getting heat again out of the vents. When that's all set, at this point you can shut the vehicle down and let it cool down.

All right, at this point I'm just gonna take the funnel off, there's a little stopper in for that funnel, take the adapter off. Make sure the coolant is up to that level, you can put the cap on. And then check over on the reservoir, you're gonna want to add coolant to the reservoir, it shows a line where it's hot and then there's a line where it's cold, adjusts accordingly. You should be good to go. You