I can see what happened there. The later cars have the radiator mounted
farther forward, so the fan could easily be too deep for the 65 bodyshell. I
would say your safest bet would be the 3-bladed fan, for 67 or earlier,
which is designed for that amount of clearance, albeit massive and primitive
in appearance. This is not to say that some other one wouldn't work...
on 3/5/01 7:42 AM, David Councill at dcouncil@imt.net wrote:
> I have need of the three or six blade fan for an 18V engine in a 65B. I did
> get some parts from another lister but I can't find his email and listquest
> (archives) is not responding. So any offers?
>
> My son got a little anxious on the 65B restoration and suffered a setback.
> His 65B has an 18V engine, purportedly a 72 but the engine id was 18V800
> something (my 72 engine was more like 18V582, going by memory since both
> cars are at home). The fan was a large plastic eight blade thing which sat
> close to the radiator, close enough that when my son decided to start the
> car (while I wasn't there to check everything), it caught the bottom lip of
> the radiator, the blades bent inward, and cut into the radiator core. It
> looks like the flatter metal blades will give me more clearance and clear
> the radiator, once I get it repaired. Unless there are other alternatives?
>
> David
> 65 B
> 67 BGT
> 71 BGT
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.
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