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Re: need fan in 69 spridget for summer

To: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: need fan in 69 spridget for summer
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
In-reply-to: <3759B49C.1A53@bellsouth.net>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
The later fan is 6 plastic blades and will fit.  I installed it on my car.
I think I remember that it did help in teh 110 deg AZ stop and go traffic.
Ulix

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Mark Snowdon wrote:

> Mark Vanderlinden wrote:
> > 
> >      Question:
> > 
> >      As the weather is getting better, it is time to gt on the road again.
> >      My first summer with a 69 Sprite.
> > 
> >      Spending some times in traffic jams with high temperatures (of the
> >      weather that is) I am wondering: the Sprite does not have a fan to
> >      cool the radiator. Standing in a traffic jam do we get enough cooling
> >      for the little one? or should I install a fan to cool it (confession:
> >      I probably will only be a "good weather driver"
> > 
> >      Mark
> 
> You should have a four blade metal fan in your 69 Sprite, mine does. I
> have been told that the later plastic ones with 8? blades will fit and
> work better, but I don't know. Someone with more experience should be
> able to help you on this. 
> 
> Just a side question, does your 69 Sprite have reflectors mounted on the
> fenders and quarters? Toby and mine do, but I have heard from others who
> do not, so I am just curious to the rhyme or reasoning of them. The M*^*
> catalogue lists them as 70 Midget pieces, but mine is definately a
> 69,(thanks Bruce)
> 
> Mark Snowdon
> Greensboro NC
> 

    Ulix                                       __/__,__      ___/__|__  
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                                              '67 Sprite     '74 X1/9


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