Longo Toyota tells me Prius overheating is *normal*!?

[Winston]

I can just imagine you sitting on the couch cutting out little paper "fan blades" with a beer in your hand. Yea, the "puller" to a "pusher" concept is a myth. I agree the fans are designed to work much better when installed the right way, but flipping it will not make it push air.

[jayman]

Originally Posted by Winston

I can just imagine you sitting on the couch cutting out little paper "fan blades" with a beer in your hand.

That is almost *exactly* what I did. The cats were looking at me as if I had finally gone insane. I obviously can no longer have 3-4 beers so close to bedtime, my head is still a bit sore ...



Oi

[richard schumacher]

NARFF!!! Glad to be of service, and thanks for th' chuckle :_>

[jayman]

Well, I finally got around to doing that little science experiment with my '84 Ford. It has a custom-made 5 row rad, a hub spacer, and a Flex-a-Lite heavy duty towing fan, similar to this one

Flex-a-lite 7-Blade Flex Fan

Even at idle, that fan really pulls air in. At 2,000 rpm it has a low roar to it

Very easy to unbolt the shroud, undo the fan bolts, and flip the fan around. Around 4 mins later I had everything tightened down, hopped into the cab, hit the starter.

Oh boy, what a weird noise. Sort of a whack-whack-whack noise. I checked the fan wasn't hitting anything, just the blades themselves were making that weird noise

Airflow: there actually wasn't any that I could determine. Normally, at idle you can feel a *very* strong airflow out the fan over the motor. Nothing.

So I aborted the science experiment before fan blades started to fly off, and put it back on properly. Wonder where that urban legend of turning a car fan into a pusher came from?