I believe that it is a straight-up switch. My '3 has one on it and if I
am not mistaken; the hand-crank bolt is in place. Of course, the
radiator doesn't have a hole in it; so it is a mute question as to
whether it would work (on mine). Someone had told me that it was a
Spitfire blade, but I hadn't done any research to verify the original
"owner". It is 6-bladed; whitish-yellow plastic (might be from age)
with a fairly well defined crease/bend in the blade to force the air
through.
HTH..
Later,
Carl F. Musson (musson@arts.usf.edu)
'58 TR3A TS25264L www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/
Tampa, Florida (USA)
-----Original Message-----
From: Angelo Graham [SMTP:a3graham@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 8:38 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Substitute for TR3A fan.
Good day fellow listers:
At a recent British car meet I noticed a few TR4A's running what
appeared
to be TR6 plastic fans on the fan hubs. Wasn't able to track
down the
owners to find out about this. Anyone know about this
"conversion" & what
is involved? I'm assuming the same conversion would work on a
3A, but you
would loose the hand crank bolt. Any more effective cooling
with a multi
blade, plastic fan? Thanks for any leads.
Angelo Graham
1959 TR3A
Waterloo, Ont. Canada
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