81 Electric Cooling Fan
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81 Electric Cooling Fan
I replaced the fan clutch on my 81 yesterday because the old one never released and it sounded like I was driving an air boat instead of a Corvette....lol. When I got in there I see that there is an electric fan in front of the mechanical one. Did they all have that?
Autozone asked me if the car had the "heavy duty cooling option". I'm not sure what that is exactly but was wondering if that was the electric fan option?
The new fan clutch is much smaller that the one I took off and it releases like I think it should. I haven't driven it yet with the new fan clutch but it's winter time so I don't expect any cooling issues right now but I do live in Texas so the heat will be coming!
Autozone asked me if the car had the "heavy duty cooling option". I'm not sure what that is exactly but was wondering if that was the electric fan option?
The new fan clutch is much smaller that the one I took off and it releases like I think it should. I haven't driven it yet with the new fan clutch but it's winter time so I don't expect any cooling issues right now but I do live in Texas so the heat will be coming!
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mine only ran one time,
car was a week or two old.
i tested it couple years ago and it fire right up.
noisy sum gun.
was a time i thought about trying to hook it up for cooling.
it is set to run at 235 deg head temp with the stock temp sensor and i was going to put it on a relay and manually run it when needed.
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car was a week or two old.
i tested it couple years ago and it fire right up.
noisy sum gun.
was a time i thought about trying to hook it up for cooling.
it is set to run at 235 deg head temp with the stock temp sensor and i was going to put it on a relay and manually run it when needed.
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I replaced the fan clutch on my 81 yesterday because the old one never released and it sounded like I was driving an air boat instead of a Corvette....lol. When I got in there I see that there is an electric fan in front of the mechanical one. Did they all have that?
Autozone asked me if the car had the "heavy duty cooling option". I'm not sure what that is exactly but was wondering if that was the electric fan option?
The new fan clutch is much smaller that the one I took off and it releases like I think it should. I haven't driven it yet with the new fan clutch but it's winter time so I don't expect any cooling issues right now but I do live in Texas so the heat will be coming!
Autozone asked me if the car had the "heavy duty cooling option". I'm not sure what that is exactly but was wondering if that was the electric fan option?
The new fan clutch is much smaller that the one I took off and it releases like I think it should. I haven't driven it yet with the new fan clutch but it's winter time so I don't expect any cooling issues right now but I do live in Texas so the heat will be coming!
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Last edited by Buccaneer; Jan 26, 2019 at 01:21 AM.
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From: Central Texas
mine only ran one time,
car was a week or two old.
i tested it couple years ago and it fire right up.
noisy sum gun.
was a time i thought about trying to hook it up for cooling.
it is set to run at 235 deg head temp with the stock temp sensor and i was going to put it on a relay and manually run it when needed.
.
.
car was a week or two old.
i tested it couple years ago and it fire right up.
noisy sum gun.
was a time i thought about trying to hook it up for cooling.
it is set to run at 235 deg head temp with the stock temp sensor and i was going to put it on a relay and manually run it when needed.
.
.
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The temp 'run' point on that aux fan was set pretty high. That fan only runs when the coolant temps are "excessive" due to long idling in elevated air temps. I think it only ran after coolant got to 220*F or so.
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