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

It's good to see that you're healing up well. Hopefully the therapy goes just as well and you're back to 100% soon.

Back in high school auto class (24 years ago) a fellow student had his car in the shop for whatever reason. Being a 16 year old moron, he was revving it up and part of the fan broke off. It went CLEAN THROUGH the hood of the car and continued through one of the ceiling tiles, bounced off the corrugated steel ceiling, and came to rest on top of the ceiling tile. A few kids were standing around the car, so it
was only by the grace of our maker that the piece of fan went straight up and not sideways.

The car was an 80's Cutlass or Regal but I don't recall if it was a stock fan or aftermarket flex fan. He had some work done to the car so I'm guessing
aftermarket.

Since that day I have always treated a running engine with cooling fan like a loaded gun. I won't put myself anywhere near the potential projectile path. And I've been running an electric fan on the Swinger for 15 years.