Re: OT: Electric cooling Fan update

["Mark Price" <mprice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

35 mph would probably be about right. As soon as I got the truck up above 25 miles an hour the temp gauge started dropping like a rock and went right back to normal real quick.
I found a website that had plans for making a presure switch that will allow the electric fan to shut down when air presure reaches a certain amount. The recomendation is to remote mount it with a tube running out in front of the radiater area. Then when the car reaches a certain speed and air presure in front of the radiator builds up the switch shuts down the elctric cooling fan. I don't have the URL handy, I know they seemed to be selling the plans to build the switch yourself. I never followed up on it though.
Mark Price
mpriceATwestco.net
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



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From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:57:15 -0700 (PDT)

>On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Mark Price wrote:
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>> I installed an electric cooling fan on My S-10 in February or so this year.
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>I wish someone made an electric clutch, like an A/C compressor
>clutch, that drives a water-pump mounted fan. Then you could
>install a massively agressive pitch fan with enough reliable HP to
>turn it -- but only when you needed it, with a thermostat.
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>I always thought that on the later AMCs with TF autos, the TCS
>(transmission controlled spark) swtich would be perfect for
>disabling an electric fan.  The switch closes (or opens, I forget)
>at 35 MPH, pretty much when you're getting a radiator full of air
>from forward motion alone.
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