Re: RMIHR, Electric Fans

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Mandera" <tsm1@domain.elided>
To: "Colin Gebhart" <colin@domain.elided>
Cc: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 23:15
Subject: Re: RMIHR, Electric Fans


> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Colin Gebhart wrote:
>
> > I didn't hear that you were going to be putting a Taurus electric fan
> > on your IH.  I would like to put an electric fan on mine, but I am not
>
> I gave it a whirl.. it worked OK, but not well enough to keep the 392 as
> cool as I wanted to.
>
> It came from an early 90s 3.8L V6.

Any chance you'll try the dual fans in front of radiator method now along
with shroud and mechanical fan?

>
> > nylon rods through the radiator.  Did your setup work better?  How did
> > you mount it?  And if you like it, do you know what model year Taurus
> > its from?
>
> I mounted it by running two steel straps vertically, one on either side of
> the radiator, using the stock mounting holes for the shroud.  I then
> drilled a couple holes in the Taurus shroud to hold it in place.
>
> http://tigger.tmcom.com/~tsm1/gallery has some pictures.
>
> Tomorrow I'll be swapping a "good used" 392 into my Travelette before
> finishing our trip.
>
> The new 'mill provided about 900 trouble free miles.... :-(
>
> -Tom Mandera, Westminster CO at the moment..
>

???!!!!!!!

What happened?!

-Ryan