I am astonished you continued running the truck with a fan that had
obviously suffered metal fatigue, and was clearly out of balance. That seems
particularly foolhardy, considering the damage you had already witnessed.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 3/7/11 10:39 AM, The Roxter at rocknatural@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 2:53 AM, Paul Hunt wrote:
>> Factory electric fans always shut off with the ignition, it depends
>> on the fitter as to what after-market fans do, could be either.
>> Personally I think to have them running after the engine is switched
>> off is not a good thing, it could run the battery down if the switch
>> stuck on, or at worst could burn out the car as happened several
>> times a few years ago with some modern French car or other (and half
>> the owners house as the car was in the garage at the time).
> While we're on this subject, I want to interject a comment: once while driving
> my old Chevy Carryall on the QE near Toronto, there was a horrendous bang and
> the entire truck started shaking violently. I immediatelt shut it off and
> pulled onto the verge. There was a clean cut in the heavy metal bonnet of the
> truck, about three inches long. One of the blades of the four-bladed fan had
> broken off and cut right through the bonnet. We never found the blade. I
> removed the rest of that blade and it ran just fine on two blades for the rest
> of the summer. The second half of the story is that a man my dad knew was
> killed when he was revving an engine is his shop and the same thing happened
> to the fan blade, but in this case, it went clear through his head, killing
> him instantly. I'm always VERY leary of the possibility that things might
> break off a spinning engine and harm me or others. I set up my engines,
> sometimes with mirrors, so that I can do the timing without being in line to
> be hurt. I recommend this practice.
>
> -Rocky Frisco
> --
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