Chip,
As I mention in another post, I'm a "fan" of the fan! Mine has worked
well for several years. When I hit the switch, temp drops from over 100
deg C to the operating temp of 80 deg C in no time!
I too have an expansion tank. I believe this is a necessity, not to
prevent overheat but to keep the level in the rad constant. My Mog tends
to relieve pressure when it sits after a hot run. This would end up on
the ground & the rad level would thus keep creeping down. Now it vents &
vacuum returns it back to the rad when cool. Always full. The expansion
bottle was a spare from a Mustang! It's true, Detroit iron runs cool,
not suffering the problems of the LBCs (little British cars), which
"mark their territory"!
Cheers,
Fred Kuzyk
President, Morgan Sports Car Club of Canada
Visit the Morgan Sports Car Club of Canada's website at:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/msccc
ebrown@ms.com wrote:
>
> 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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