Posted by Kurt
on 1/21/2009, 11:33 am, in reply to "Replacing Falcon Cooling Fan"
65.9.132.40
Hey Bob,
I live in South Florida and my 62 was running hot during the summers in stop and go traffic. I actually pulled over a few times because I thought it would over heat. I ran into the same problem with the plastic fan when I was replacing mine. There really isn't to much room to work with there. I was surprised at how heavy the stock fans are and your right, the engine uses a lot of energy just to spin the fan . I ended up putting a mustang fan in mine since it has 1 more blade then the falcons and i never had a problem with running hot in summer stop and go traffic again. It was amazing what a difference. Maybe a lighter weight late model mustang fan instead of the 2 ton falcon fan that might be less work on the engine?
--Previous Message--
: 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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