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If yours is an '85-on, that was an even closer call than you think.... 200

posted by  AOG on  Wed Mar 30 17:26 CST 2011
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Mine is a 1990 245. Yeah, when that needle starts moving, it goes really fast!!!

I have no need for the swamp cooler fan clutch. I have two fans and clutches now that I installed a new engine. The new engine is from a southern car (a 1992 245) and the fan clutch feels a lot tighter. This might be the swamp cooler clutch you guys were referring to... is there any way to definitely tell? Any kind of markings or physical attributes to look for to identify it?

I'm currently using the "yankee cooler" from my old engine since it never caused me any overheating problems in the hottest of Illinois weather.

Actually, what really initiated this whole experiment is a problem I had with my Ford Focus. That car keeps burning up fan relays and I ran it for well over a year without it overheating because I never run the A/C and I hardly ever get caught in traffic. I've since replaced the relay in that car, but it almost never kicks on unless I turn on the A/C. I don't know what makes that car so much more resistant to overheating - it could be a larger capacity radiator or the fact that there is very good ducting with baffles in front of the rad to direct air into it. Nothing as nice as that on my Volvo. My front splitter is long gone, but at least I still have the big plastic belly pan.






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