Re: fan clutch

From: pjenks60 (pjenks60@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2012 - 18:32:43 EDT


I swapped to electric fan and under drive crank pulley at the same time. Picked up 1 mpg. That was 150,000 miles ago. Been fine ever since.

Phil

On Oct 25, 2012, at 8:53 AM, "Mike Sykes" <mikesykes@cox.net> wrote:

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> Is this really necessary? (Probably not)
> Would I have better acceleration? (probably nothing I would really notice)
> Does the start-up roaring bother me? (no, not at all)
> Why am I asking? (don't really know)<<<
>
> I second the Grand Cherokee fan. It's cheaper than a new fan clutch, way cheaper than a Viper fan, and moves 4000cfm. As far as aftermarket fan clutches go, I haven't seen any sort of "performance" fan clutches in my internet trollings. You could always go with a lightweight non-clutched fan.
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> Is it necessary? (Of course!)
> Would you have better acceleration? (A little bit.)
> Does the start-up roaring bother you? (Don't lie, it's painfully annoying) :)
>
>
> - miggity
>
> 00' stroked R/T CC
> DMLer since 1996!



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