Might help date the previous build of the car if I did
Weird old Thermo Fan?
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 12:58 PM
Bit bodgey looking..... No idea of its age....
Might help date the previous build of the car if I did
Might help date the previous build of the car if I did
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 02:09 PM
Looks to me like someone has taken one of those god awful metal bladed aftermarket engine fans and mated it to a 12v electric motor from an old 12v camping fridge. They have even braced the fan blades to stop them flexing (which they were designed to do)and hitting the mounting brackets. Those metal fans are just plain useless and dangerous.
Take it off and put it up on a shelf in the shed for display, that is all it is good for!
You can go back to the original metal engine driven fan and put up with it or install an electrical one that work.
I have the AU fan setup which is just awesome but bulky. Someone here has used a smaller one off the mondeo (I think) which fits easier.
Take it off and put it up on a shelf in the shed for display, that is all it is good for!
You can go back to the original metal engine driven fan and put up with it or install an electrical one that work.
I have the AU fan setup which is just awesome but bulky. Someone here has used a smaller one off the mondeo (I think) which fits easier.
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 02:41 PM
On the shelf or in the bin!!
Yeah when I re-wired the harness, Ive fitted extra wiring for a temp sensor in the manifold which will switch GND for a relay that will run a thermo fan.
Yeah when I re-wired the harness, Ive fitted extra wiring for a temp sensor in the manifold which will switch GND for a relay that will run a thermo fan.
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 07:59 PM
Looks like a mock up for sure,flexifan on something that resembles a ceiling fan motor.
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 08:07 PM
I guess when it was done thermo fans were not readily available??
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 08:12 PM
i think a9x had em but not sure how long they been around
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Posted 30 September 2011 - 09:20 PM
Could be an old Davies Craig.
Ive got one here somewhere if you want a pic for comparison.
Ive got one here somewhere if you want a pic for comparison.
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Posted 01 October 2011 - 12:23 AM
The motor is a davies craig unit, same as fitted to the a9x, 76-80 holdens with aircon.
Bracket looks like from a kingswood, but they were always fitted on outside of radiator.
fan blades, looks like a couple are from a 7 blade clutch fan, others fabricated.
Original fan blades on these were like on this one:
http://www.google.co...iw=1133&bih=571
but they could warp or crack.
Id of thought the metal blades shown would be a bit heavy for that motor
Ooh, and there's a thought, Ive got two of the slim line davies craigs in the shed and a preslite(they put them on the kingswoods)+ a frame to fit two of them to a chev radiator in the shed.....
Bracket looks like from a kingswood, but they were always fitted on outside of radiator.
fan blades, looks like a couple are from a 7 blade clutch fan, others fabricated.
Original fan blades on these were like on this one:
http://www.google.co...iw=1133&bih=571
but they could warp or crack.
Id of thought the metal blades shown would be a bit heavy for that motor
Ooh, and there's a thought, Ive got two of the slim line davies craigs in the shed and a preslite(they put them on the kingswoods)+ a frame to fit two of them to a chev radiator in the shed.....
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Posted 01 October 2011 - 02:57 PM
[quote name='torbirdie' timestamp='1317392582' post='625083']
"The motor is a davies craig unit, same as fitted to the a9x"
The motor in hanra's photo is not the A9X one, the correct A9X one is in your link.
"The motor is a davies craig unit, same as fitted to the a9x"
The motor in hanra's photo is not the A9X one, the correct A9X one is in your link.
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Posted 08 October 2011 - 03:34 PM
A bit of good old fashioned engineering at work there.....
But awful to look at.
But awful to look at.
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Posted 06 November 2011 - 03:41 PM
Looks ancient thats for sure
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Posted 05 January 2012 - 02:12 PM
I dont reckon its home made hey.. Finally pulled it off. Had all the correct plastic zip tie mounts through the rad core.
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Posted 06 January 2012 - 07:38 PM
Anyone got any ideas????
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Posted 06 January 2012 - 10:15 PM
I reckon its a standard mid to late 80's thermo fan with an after market flexi fan thing on it.
This is the fan on one of my cars which were all the rage at the time, though you will end up with finger like that dude in Max Max 2 that tried to catch the boomerang if you get to close to it!
This is the fan on one of my cars which were all the rage at the time, though you will end up with finger like that dude in Max Max 2 that tried to catch the boomerang if you get to close to it!
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Posted 06 January 2012 - 11:48 PM
agree^^ boomarang type fan hanra,,dont fit it or try to catch it out 
...& dont put pinky close by!!
...& dont put pinky close by!!
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 02:32 AM
I've seen ones like that here from time to time...sort of like this one ?
http://www.ebay.com/...=item23182c16ad
http://www.ebay.com/...=item23182c16ad
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Posted 07 January 2012 - 08:04 AM
Palmer Cool... Interesting!!! That would make sense as the p/n is PC 19208. PC being Palmer cool!!
Thanks for the lead!!!
Thanks for the lead!!!
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 07:43 PM
I never really got anywhere finding info for this thing.....
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Posted 08 June 2022 - 09:41 AM
Not Palmer Cool..........Perma Cool. They still make 'em.
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Posted 08 June 2022 - 09:50 AM
Now that Shiney has pinpointed the fan's original configuration, looks to be originally designed for the condensers you see on refrigerated trucks.
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Posted 08 June 2022 - 10:02 AM
I chucked it in the bin!
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Posted 08 June 2022 - 10:09 AM
Ive sent Perma Cool an email to see if the recognize the model number.
https://shop.perma-c...ic-Fans_c26.htm
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Posted 09 June 2022 - 05:57 AM
Well that puts that to bed then.
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Posted 09 June 2022 - 10:31 AM
Good on them. At least they went to the trouble of having a look. I spent some time writing to the biggest Repco shops back in the early 1990's looking for the old tooling from their engineering days and all I got was the literal equivalent of blank stares back.
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