At 12:10 AM +1000 31/3/98, Gerhard Wiederholl wrote:
>there is a company called Mercedes Benz which still puts the engine the
>old way
>behind the radiator and uses a belt driven fan. But this fan has an
>automatic
>clutch which disconnects the fan at the times it is not needed. You see there
>are really many brainstorming heads having a lot of ideas. They all just
>try to
>find a way to take the load of the fan off even if it would be much easyer
>and
>cheaper to keep a constant linked fan.
The Rover 3500 (P6) in the late 1960s to mid 1970s had a fluid coupling on
the fan so that it tracked the engine speed up to about 2000 rpm and then
did not go any faster. Another attempt to limit the fan losses.
Trevor Jordan
74 TR6 CF29281U
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