I just dropped a 14" Flex-A-Light off last week at a machine shop to get
the 1" pilot hole. They told me they would hone it out to 1". I,
personally, thought I could do it myself with a drill. I wasn't too far off
on my effort. About 1/8". I remember all of the forces of a rotating mass
from my engineering classes and tossed that fan, bought another, and am
paying the money. All I need is to destroy the bearings in the water pump
and potentially crack my timing cover. I know the mass wasn't that great,
but I am not taking the chance.
I ordered the fan from Amazon. It was much cheaper than Summit. I will get
the fan back tomorrow from the machine shop.
I bought a pulley from Bob Woolridge. Everything is on my car except the
fan. Still running the stock one until the other one is ready.
She still seems to be a not so cool Cat. I have no idea where my kid put my
infrared thermometer. I know the gauge is off by 10 to 20 degrees. It stays
reading at 200 while cruising. Kinda scared to let her idle for too long.
She might cough up a hairball on the garage floor.
Chip
Tom
You have to be careful when you say enlarge the center hole on the
fan. You can do this on most stock Ford fans but on many after market fans
the mount holes are slotted; you don't want to open the center hole into the
slotted holes. You have to turn the fan hub around and possibly mill it to
get the correct distance and fan location.
Ron Fraser
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From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Thomas Witt
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 7:32 PM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Where to find parts, shifter...
Jeff,
It took me about 10 years to find the Maverick fan in self serve wrecking
yards..., and I go about once a month. In self serve yards the cars start
to show up about years 10-12 and are almost completely gone by years 20-25.
The desired Maverick fan was from the early cars and is about 40 years old.
Pretty much the same thing for the Volvo fan. People have had success with
the Derale fan. If you are running the stock Tiger waterpump the center
hole on the fan needs to be enlarged to 1". If you run a Volvo fan an
approximate 1/8" bushing is needed for it's 1-1/8" hole.
Even the late 70's early 80's Fairmont's are getting very hard to find. I
recall a number of years ago Jere Teepen had a number of pulleys for sale.
Maybe he will chime in or someone can put you in contact with him. Tom
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