[Healeys] Radiator - fan crack

[BJ8 Healeys]

I once had a Moss 6-bladed metal fan (made in China) shed two blades while
coming home from work in my BJ8.  Moss replaced it with an identical fan and
replaced the damaged radiator.  A few months and about 2500 miles later,
Moss sent a bulletin to everyone who had bought one of the 6-bladed fans.
They said to remove it immediately and send it back for a gift certificate
worth $125.  When I removed the second fan, I saw that it had paint chips in
the blade roots exactly where the first fan blades had broken off.  
I replaced the second fan with a Texas Kooler (bought from the North Texas
AHC) and have had no problems with it in 8 years and 60K miles.
The experience taught me whenever I'm standing to the side of a running
engine, NEVER stand in the plane of the fan.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Richard Ewald
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 5:07 PM
To: Jonas Payne
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Radiator - fan crack

You are very lucky.  A former coworker of mine opened the hood of a Chevy
truck to look at a rough running condition (he was a Chevy tech at the
time).  He reached in and gave it a bit of throttle.  The fan came apart the
blade flew up hit him in the mouth and took out almost all of his teeth.
Rick