On Sat, 12 Apr 1997 14:38:52 +0100 Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
writes:
> ......As background, the fan on the C/GT is a yellow, plastic flex fan.
.....
> .....
>Within 15 minutes of having the car fired up again, and while briskly
going through the gears merging onto an expressway, several of the fan
blades tired of flying in formation. The immediate results were a very
loud commotion under the bonnet; the almost instantaneous presence of
great clouds of steamed antifreeze; and a great amount of rumbling and
general unrest from the remaining fan blades still willing to soldier on.
Yup. Sounds like the ultimate diagnostic test alright. Lucky it was a
plastic fan. Metal blades usually try to find daylight through the
bonnet. (Been there).
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA
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