John,
Though I haven't seen the result of a blade shedding off the TD fan, I
have seen it on another engine. It's not a pretty sight when it hits the
radiator, then the top tank, then flies up into the hood. One wonders
what it would do to hands, neck or face.
Though this might never happen to you, it might. My advice is to get
four new bolts in there, despite the difficulty. My handy hint for
radiator removal is to have two or three wooden shingles (shakes). As
you work the wrench through the slot between radiator shell and splash
panel the nuts go down below wrench reach. Lift the radiator and support
it with the shingles to raise the nut back to wrench height.
Bob
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:36:33 -0500 "Gunnell, John" <gunnellj@krause.com>
writes:
> Help!
>
> After getting my TD recently I was told the fan was on backwards.
> As it turns out, according to the tip in the Moss catalog, only one
> blade was backwards. I took them off without removing the radiator
> and got them poroperly oriented (reinforcements towards the front
> and blade with offset holes towards the rear). By the way, an 11/32
> SAE socket worked fine.
>
> Now for the problem. Those little fan bolts must tolerate about
> as much torque as a toothpick. I snapped one off. Didn't put a lot
> of pressure on it either.
>
> The other three bolts went in just fine and everything seems
> quite snug, but dare I run the car with only three bolts holding the
> fan? Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
> I'd rather not tear the radiator out and all that right now if I
> don't have to. I'm sure the day will come On the other hand, I don't
> want a blade flying off. Any advice would be welcome.
>
> John Gunnell
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