Patent ID: 7108092

Claim:
A water-cooled engine radiator upper mounting structure for a vehicle, comprising: a vehicle body frame; a water-cooled engine radiator disposed at a front part of the vehicle body frame, the radiator including a lower part mounted to a front bottom of the vehicle body frame; a stay being substantially L-shaped in top plan view and having a central portion connected to a top part of the radiator, the L-shaped stay including: a first stay extending rearward from the central portion and having a distal end portion connected to a front upper part of the front part of the vehicle body frame, the first stay having a weak part that is configured to be deformable to absorb a collision force applied to the first stay through the radiator, and a second stay integrally formed with the first stay and extending from the central portion of the L-shaped stay in a lateral outward direction of the vehicle and bent downward along a side of the radiator, the second stay having a distal end portion connected to a front side part of the vehicle body frame by a bolt extending in a widthwise direction of the vehicle such that when subjected to the collision force through the radiator, the second stay tilts rearward about the bolt to thereby allow the radiator to tilt rearward about the lower part thereof.