Patent ID: 7814963

Claim:
A cooling system for a work vehicle having an elongated narrow hood located at a forward end of the vehicle and having opposing forward and rearward ends defining a longitudinal axis, the hood having a front grille with cooling air vents, a left sidewall and a right sidewall, the system comprising: an engine water cooler disposed under the hood behind the front grille and forward of and fluidly connected to the work vehicle engine; and a first heat exchanger disposed beneath the engine water cooler and having a parallel airflow path to the engine water cooler the engine water cooler having a front face offset rearwardly along the longitudinal axis from the front face of the first heat exchanger and defining a second cooling air path disposed fluidly in parallel to a cooling path through the first heat exchanger, the engine water cooler having at least one vertically extending tank on at least one of the left or right sides of the engine water cooler; and at least one conduit connected to the first heat exchanger forward of the front face of the engine water cooler with respect to the longitudinal axis and extending rearward over a top surface of the engine water cooler, a portion of the at least conduit extending upward from the first heat exchanger directly forward of the vertically extending tank of the engine water cooler.