Re: GTV6 cooling fan meltdown...(reasonably long)

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know why, but every GTV-6 fan I've ever heard of failing, has 
been the passenger-side fan. What happened on mine is that it started 
to turn slowly in relationship to the driver's side unit, and it got 
very hot (drawing upwards of 12 amps will do that). When mine went, 
there were no replacements available so I had to improvise by fitting a 
used single Milano fan in place of both GTV-6 fans. But the day I got 
the Milano fan installed and working, I received the new catalogue from 
International Auto Parts (IAP) in Charlottsville Virginia that had (for 
the first time) replacement fans available. Apparently, they went to 
the original manufacturer in Italy and had a new run made-up for them I 
recall that they cost about $125 each. OTOH, I have a good GTV-6 fan 
that I'm no longer using. If you want it, I'll let you have it for $75. 
I paid to have both of the fans disassembled and cleaned down to bare 
metal before I knew that one of them was shot. So they are both newly 
painted with no rust  and the good one has had the bearing cleaned and 
re-lubricated, the commutator has been cleaned and the brushes are in 
good shape. Let me know if you are interested.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0S




On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 02:53 PM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 16:49:18 -0400
> From: "Ryan Mottice" <tont032@domain.elided>
> Subject: GTV6 cooling fan meltdown...(reasonably long)
>
> Friends,
>
> While out for a pleasant drive around the capital beltway (i.e. 
> wasting time
> sitting in bumper to bumper traffic at 10:30 a.m.)  I started to smell
> something burning.  I caught a hint of it, then it was gone.  A while 
> later
> the smell came back with a vengeance and i watched as the engine temp 
> began
> to creep up.  I pulled over and popped the hood to find the source.  
> First
> things first: coolant - good, drivers side fan, ok - pass side fan, 
> not ok.
> pass side fan wiring - insulation melted off.  following the wire to 
> the
> connectors - connectos melted together.  Since the radiator is in the 
> way
> and I could follow the wiring no further, I headed to the wiring 
> harness on
> the drivers side.  The harness was split open exposing the wire which 
> had by
> then shed it's insulation.  Since the connector was fried, I cut the 
> power
> wire and drove home (temp was fine at speed).  Got home, removed fried 
> fan,
> opened it up and discovered death, as expected.  First of all, what 
> could
> have caused such an event, and secondly...how does one go about 
> replacing
> said fried components.  I might as well replace both fans while I'm at 
> it,
> but the real question here is the wiring.  Upon initial inspection it 
> the
> meltdown doesn't seem to have damaged any other circuits...thank 
> goodness
> for that.  I have some ideas of how to remedy this, but I thought I'd 
> ask if
> anyone has come across a similar situation.  Thanks for letting me 
> ramble.
>
> Ryan
>
> 84 GTV6
> 91 164S x2
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