[6pack] FW: Electric cooling fan: pusher or puller?

[Bob Danielson]

Geeze.... What is the 6-pack allowable mail size? Here's what got bounced
and has now been snipped..... To appropriate size I hope...

Just a point of clarification in case you don't check out Joe's
site......which you should because you'll spend hours there with your jaw on
the desk looking at the work he has done......when Joe talks shroud he's NOT
talking a radiator shroud like Goodparts sells. He constructed a fan shroud
that totally covers the back of his radiator except the fan itself. Very
cool.....if only I had the metal working skills!

I installed the three way switch for a couple of reasons. I wanted an off
position for when I'm working under the hood with the engine running and
don't want to fan kicking in and scaring the crap out of me...... And the
manual-on position lets me turn the fan on when I see I'm going to be stuck
in beach traffic and I know I'll be crawling down route 1 forever. It's my
pre-emptive strike so to speak ;-)


Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
Toyota 5 Speed & Nissan LSD
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 


SNIP......Joe's email.....  It is absolutely essential that the fan be
shrouded and mounted at a certain distance from the radiator.  Just slapping
the fan without a shroud does not allow it to run at its peak efficiency.
Something that nobody considers and nobody talks about, but an electric fan
must be shrouded.  It is not done because of the effort that goes into
fabricating the shrouding. Go the extra mile and it will amaze you how
efficient it is.