*MUST READ*--Flex Fan Danger--Be very careful working on old cars

You said those blades are stainless steel? Stainless is known to be terrible in applications where flexing, and durability are concerned (look up what happens when people try to use a stainless sword or the like, QVC had an on air incident where somebody tapped a stainless el cheapo sword against a table having it break and skewer him)

Even with factory setups crap can happen, last june I was driving with my wife and kids in her Galaxie when I let it have it, ahifted from 2nd to third at near 6k, then heard a pretty good pow, started having the charging light and overheat problems right away.

When I pulled over the clutch fan, water pump pulley and half the impeller shaft where imbedded in the $300 radiator, after beating the crap out of the balancer, power steering pump and alternator. And before you ask, the fan had no wiggle and very little drag on it when I checked three days earlier after it threw a power steering belt