Murphys Law

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barracudadave67

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Well after I got my new rad in the 69, on Saturday, Me and my freind were emptying a 12 pack in the gararge, He was looking at my 340 Engine, I instaled 3 yrs ago, and said "if I didn't know better, i would say your fan blade is on backwards". I said you can't put them on backwards they are printed with engine side on them. He insisted it was on backwards, so I got a light and was going to show him the printing. Couldn't find it. So then I started looking in earnst, and low and behold on the rad side of the fan blade, under one of the bolts, I found the last half of the word "engine".

The fan has been like that for three yrs. That is probably why It has consistently ran @ 200* F on the road since install. When I flip it around this comming weekend it should drop the temp w/ my new aluminun rad. It's a mopar clutch fan w/a t-stat assy from mopar.

Murpys Law == When a part can be installed backwards, Someone will install it that way.

My funny for the Day.

Davce C.
 
Yep! That is so true. I was at the drag strip looking at this guy's new header's and seen he had dun the same thing. I had a couple in me and he said that it was on the right way. Well as most of you know I had a nice remark for him and his chebby.
Well this chebby must be running backwards then and I walked back to my B/Q grill by my truck.
And just as I was getting another cold one we seen him turning it around.
He came over to my truck and thanked me and handed me a girlie colander from his ligure store. True story :toothy7:
 
barracudadave67 said:
Well after I got my new rad in the 69, on Saturday, Me and my freind were emptying a 12 pack in the gararge, He was looking at my 340 Engine, I instaled 3 yrs ago, and said "if I didn't know better, i would say your fan blade is on backwards". I said you can't put them on backwards they are printed with engine side on them. He insisted it was on backwards, so I got a light and was going to show him the printing. Couldn't find it. So then I started looking in earnst, and low and behold on the rad side of the fan blade, under one of the bolts, I found the last half of the word "engine".

The fan has been like that for three yrs. That is probably why It has consistently ran @ 200* F on the road since install. When I flip it around this comming weekend it should drop the temp w/ my new aluminun rad. It's a mopar clutch fan w/a t-stat assy from mopar.

Murpys Law == When a part can be installed backwards, Someone will install it that way.

My funny for the Day.

Davce C.


Had a 84 Furd ltd wagon that always ran hot, it was new and Furd insisted that nothing was wrong. It had a bad cam lobe and lifter, replaced those and put in a oversized radiator...topped it all off with new flex fan. It idled nice and ran hot...I did it too!
 
I can almost picture everyone with a cooling problem running out to the garage to check which way the fan is installed.....too funny guys!! I'm not laughing at you just with you. 3yrs is a long time, you sure the fan isn't set in it's ways now? What if you turn it around and the engine runs backwards?
 
Another quick True story!
I was hanging around a chebby friends shop and they pulled a starter of a marine
motor and installed it in his son's truck.
The fan blade turned the opposite way and was pushing air out the carb.
They did not know that the starter on all marine run's backwards :toothy7:
 
Now when you pull it off make sure you check it real good for stress fractures. And keep an eye on it for a while after running it a bit as they might appear. Look real good.
 
Murphy strikes where complacensey and inatentiveness linger.

I'll let you all know what the running temp is when i get it turned around. In the mean time, all you guys with heating probs "Go check your fan blades ha- ha".

Well gotta go to work now. Third shift you now.

Dave C.
 
Please don't remind me about Murphy.. He cost me a Trans Pump and the labor to do it. :tongue3:
 
If you mount the fan backwards the air will still flow the same direction it just will be very ineffecient because of the curve of the blade and could easily cause a cooling problem. In the 80's when serpentine belts started to show up with the reverse (counter clockwise) rotation water pumps I can't tell you how may cars started showed up in our shop that had cooling problems because these people put aftermarket flex fans on them that were designed for clockwise rotation water pumps.


Chuck
 
memike said:
Another quick True story!
I was hanging around a chebby friends shop and they pulled a starter of a marine
motor and installed it in his son's truck.
The fan blade turned the opposite way and was pushing air out the carb.
They did not know that the starter on all marine run's backwards :toothy7:

half true. boats with two motors have engines that rotate in opposite directions.
 
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