The radiator on my NA had turned putrid brown, and the hoses had never been replaced.
So I bamboozled Skip Cannon into helping me (and by helping I mean he did 95% of the work ) to replace all the hoses and install a neat auto radiator (a bit thicker than 5 speed ones) that he had in his shop, in my NA.
SONOFA%*^&#! Those hoses had vulcanized into the bosses! It took us (well it took Skip ) close to ten hours to remove those ungodly hoses! Please people, do not wait 71K miles to replace those hoses, it will not be pretty.
On the serious plus side, Skip found a few leaks along the intake, and on my way home the engine felt stronger. There were a few items that were loose inside the engine compartment, and yeap, Skip took care of those also.
We were almost done, when I remember that the radiator that my car had, only had about 30K-40K miles on it..