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Car Forum / Dodge / Dodge Cars / March 2005will my electric fan idea work?
Hello all, I have a '96 B250 Conversion Van with a new 360. I tow a camper with it and I found that on warmer days the temp gets mighty high. At highway speeds when the clutch on the engine driven fan kicks in, I can feel it sapping engine power which I actually think addeds to the engine heat problem. What I am thinking, if I take the engine driven fan off in favor of electrics. It will not sap engine power and the electric fans can move air more effiencently when needed especially at idel. What do you think? Fred The reasons you gave are (part of) why automakers are leaving the engine-driven fan idea and moving to electric fans. That, and transverse-mount engines. > Hello all, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > What do you think? > Fred The engine still needs to generate the electrical energy to run the electric fan. The benefit is that the electric fan only runs when it needs to...unlike the engine-driven fan. > The reasons you gave are (part of) why automakers are leaving the > engine-driven fan idea and moving to electric fans. That, and [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> What do you think? >> Fred "I can feel it sapping engine power which I actually think addeds to the engine heat problem." NO it doesn't. Going down the highway the air from your speed cools the engine. You need to have the radiator flushed. > Hello all, > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > What do you think? > Fred > "I can feel it > sapping engine power which I actually think addeds to the engine heat [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>What do you think? >>Fred The whole coolent system was flushed and a blockage repaired before I discovered this problem |
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