Re: Electric fan, worth it??? -Reply

From: HEMI@charter.net
Date: Tue Apr 06 1999 - 20:02:30 EDT


The Flex-a-Lite units don't move near enough air .

At 07:32 PM 4/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I say, get a new fan, but not a Perma Cool. Doesn't Flex-a-lite make a
>good fan? hhmmm.... I'm considering elec. fan on my premag (clutchless
>assembly...big power loss) and I'm wondering about it coppin' out on me
>in traffic (which there is plenty of here in Va.)....
>
>-mike d.
>
>>>> William Blount Arthur <m990198@nadn.navy.mil> 04/05/99 12:50pm
>>>>
>
>Ok, I have been running a perma cool electric fan for a year now. I liked
>the extra milage and responsiveness. However, I dont like it when it
>poops out on me in the middle of traffic. This weekend the fan burned up
>while I was going back to NC. As you can imagine, there was some
>traffic
>and things were not moving too fast. I only need it when I am moving
>under 25 mph but I was at a stop/crawl for a while. The truck started
>getting hot. If it had been summer I would have had to cut off, the
>heater trick was not helping too much. I went to the perma cool page
>and
>they have a replacement motor part # but jegs has to order it and that
>would cost 10 bucks more than getting a whole new fan from them. Is it
>even worth it?
>
>Bill
>'97 SS/T
>
>
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