Posted by Bob
on 1/21/2009, 8:04 am
69.204.217.140
My 1962 Falcon wagon still has the factory installed cooling fan. While this is a very reliable way to cool the engine, I'm sure that it sucks up lots of horsepower when running at highway speeds, where the fan isn't even really needed to cool the motor. The fact that the rear axle ration is 3.5:1 also means that the engine is screaming at 60 mph, so that fan is really spinning! I wanted to replace the factory fan with something else, so I purchased a Flex-A-Lite fan with flexible blade, but when I tried to install it, I found that the blades, which have more pitch than the factory unit, would rub on the fan belt. A 2" long spacer is out of the question because it would cause the fan to contact the radiator, and I couldn't locate a 1" spacer anywhere. I also thought of an electric fan but when they quit working, then you have no cooling, and I'm not sure how reliable the after-market fans are. What have others of you done to replace your fans with more efficient cooling methods?
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