I've been listening to the "faint at heart" and disagree. I'm an
amateur at shearing metals but I had some excellent sheet metal shears
that made the task a breeze. I know, when you lay out 60-70 bucks,
it's scary to trust your inexperience, but the right tools go a long
way. I started by identifying the amount of material I wanted to take
off of the blades and then made a template. After scoring each blade
I then "followed the dotted line". Finish it off with a file and a
spot of paint.
The fan turned out great. After removing a 1/2 inch on each blade,
the fan measures 14 inches across. Probably could have gotten away
with removing 3/8 inch on each blade but would have had to tweak the
fan shroud more. My only regret comes from someones post that said
they had only cut a corner of the blade to clear the rack. I trimmed
mine evenly across each blade.
JDI and good luck,
Jeff Carter
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Subject: Re: 'Worked' 6 blade fan diameter?
Author: Non-HP-alcon (alcon@earthlink.net) at HP-ColSprings,mimegw5
Date: 11/26/97 10:55 AM
At 02:47 AM 11/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Alan,
> You'll probably get alot of these, if so, just post it on Tigers. I am
>interested in the 'exact' dimension you ended up with after modifying your
>fan.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Chris Hill
Chris,
You are right.....I will take your advice.
The 'exact' dimensions of the blade after modification are: 14 7/16 inces
in diameter. Once again, I would caution anyone interested in modifiying
one of these blades to spend the money to have it done at a machine shop.
You can do it at home, but it is NOT a task for the faint at heart. I
should have followed Steve Laifman's advice on this one from the outset.
After doing it myself, I became one of the 'faints'. Hope this information
proves useful.
Regards to all....Happy Thanksgiving and Happy motoring!
Allan
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