Maybe you should temporarily refit the stock fan (removing the electric ones),
and see if that makes any difference. Then you would know if the problem was
due to insufficient fanning or something else.
If you really must have an electric fan, maybe a single big one on the front
of the radiator would work better. Probably somebody on the list who has
actually done
this can say how well it worked.
I once removed my stock fan and drove a couple of miles to see if I could
detect a reduction
in noise or an increase in power. (Don't get stuck in traffic while doing
this!) I could
not detect any significant improvement, so I put my electric fan plans on the
back burner.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 09:08 AM 8/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Ok, so the car's back on the road, running pretty well, for now anyway, but
>still tends to get hot in traffic. I know, I know, there's the list contigent
>that says that if it's between the 1/4 and 3/4 mark, it's ok. But at speed,
>the needle sits right on the 1/2 mark, so this is what I consider my benchmark
>for "normal" running. It only climbs in traffic. And my aim is to "fix" that.
>
>I've got stock radiator (which admittedly probably needs more attention than
>it's gotten, i.e. recoring), and dual electric fans. Because I have the stock
>water pump, onto which the stock fan was pressed, there is the fan shaft
>sticking out the front. So my two fans are of different sizes to allow space
>near the radiator for the shaft that the old fan pressed onto.
>I'd like to get a water pump that does not have this shaft for the fan, so I
>can replace the smaller electric fan with a larger electric fan (probably a
>more efficient fan, too).
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