Lazy Landy
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You can if you wire it through a relay, witch is switched by your ignition.
Problems removing the fan!
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slob
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from the battery with a fuse that way it will carry on working till the engine cools down. if its ign fed it will switch off with the engine
Lazy Landy
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Good point never thort of that one
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thats why I am el slobbo and you're you
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'owever, unless you've got one of those injuns that carries on getting hotter once you've switched it off... then having it ignition controlled ain't a problem. Uvverwise, it might just run until yer battery is flat and yer can't start the injun agin.
Of course, if yours is like slobs injun, which carries on running once it's been switched off, then you need the fan to keep working.
Everyone else can stick a relay in and run it off the ignition
Seriously slob - where's the advantage in a cold engine?
Cheers,
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seriously yer enjun does get hotter when you switch off the engine, just through the physics of it all.. which is why most factory fitted fans will run after the engine is switched off on a hot day. also why they have electric water pumps that run after the engine is switched off.
there is no advantage to having a cold engine but there is an advantage to stopping localised heat build up in the head, which by continuing to run the fan after shut down will help avoid.
Q.E.D whatever that means
there is no advantage to having a cold engine but there is an advantage to stopping localised heat build up in the head, which by continuing to run the fan after shut down will help avoid.
Q.E.D whatever that means
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or in english ' ah told you so'
Well the old viscous unit came out far too easily - was expecting lots of bruised knuckles and swearing. The new 16" electric is now in and fed directly from the battery. I think I'll be keeping the old unit in the back with the spanner for quite a while though.
Only problem I did have was getting the dam thing hot enough to set when to come on, simply refused to go over half way on the temp gauge.
I was getting about 280miles to a tank, so an 8% improvement should be about 300. Yeah right!
Thanks for the input!
Only problem I did have was getting the dam thing hot enough to set when to come on, simply refused to go over half way on the temp gauge.
I was getting about 280miles to a tank, so an 8% improvement should be about 300. Yeah right!
Thanks for the input!
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take the stat back orf and sit it in a pan of water on yer cooker. you should ba able to set it with the aid of a thermonitor in yer pan and a multimeter over the wires
