Re: Electric & Viscous Fans

From: andy levy (andylevy@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 18:49:06 EDT

CHRIS HOGAN wrote:
> ...so as many of you already know, and I just discovered, newer (and
> maybe older...I only have a newer one) Dakotas
> have both an electric and a viscous drive radiator fans. I was
> considering replacing the viscous fan with an electric one, but since I
> already have one, can I just pull off the viscous one?
>
> Well, of course I CAN, but is it a good idea? Is the viscous drive fan
> just a backup? Would it improve performance at all to remove the
> viscous fan? I wouldn't think so if it's just a backup...probably just
> freewheeling all the time.

There's not a snowball's chance that the electric could handle the load
on its own. If it could, then you wouldn't have the engine-driven one. 

-- 
-andy

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