Wow. It sounds like many of the respondents to the "Keeping Cool"
question think that electric fans aren't necessarily a good answer.
We've heard about blockage, ineffectiveness (see below), and using
alternative measures, air dams, pressurized tanks and the like. To
this interested observer, this is a real surprise. We only have one
response that had a positive experience with fans. So many new cars
have electric fans! Has anyone else out there become a real fan of
fans? Can anyone recommend a particular pressurized reservoir to use
with the older cars?
Chip Brown
Subject: Re: keeping your cool
Author: "David Wagstaff" <wagstaff@newnet.co.uk> at nylanr01
Date: 4/1/98 9:18 PM
Hi
Until recently when the Morgan arrived I drove a Westfield with a Kent
engine in a fairly high state of tune. It would always overheat when I got
stuck in traffic, even though it had an electric fan with a manual
override. Whenever I stopped I flipped the switch, but the gauge would
gradually creep up and up.
I solved the problem by going to a local radiator specialist. It turned
out that the radiator on the car was a standard Serck radiator with only a
single row of tubes. He made me a replacement with two rows of tubes, and
the car was ready by lunchtime. Cost me about fifty pounds, fitted
perfectly and cured the problem just like that!
Dave Wagstaff
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