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Old 03-20-2018, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
It does seem like that was the failure; i never thought of that, i grew up on cars that didn't have a clutch and the fan did spin up to 5000 + RPM, but they were of course designed to deal with that.
Yep metal blades

I remember when I got a friend of mine to make me a solid metal piece to replace the fan clutch on my 1985 trans am. It cooled great but sounded like a b17 bomber on final approach when driven. I went back to the fan clutch setup.....
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