New fan clutch installed

posted @ Thursday, August 11, 2005

It took a little longer than anticipated, but the pos flex-a-lite fan unit is no longer anywhere near our truck and we have a new severe duty fan clutch installed with the eight blade steel fan we had on the truck originally. It turns out that the heavy vibrations in the electric fan were because two blades had broken off. Go figure. All we know is that we would never recommend an electric fan for such a heavy duty application. Fortunately, the folks over at BeCool are building us a custom all aluminum radiator which should end our cooling problems once and for all.

We also took apart the fuel line as well and it seems that the Summit fuel pressure regulator is causing us some grief. We're going to remove the regulator entirely since the pump only puts out 6psi and that's exactly what the Holley carburetor is designed for. So all we have to find is a fitting to go from regular fuel hose to a 6an fitting which comes off the carburetor. Then we should be good to go for the car show in Rolla this weekend. One thing is for sure, we'll be very glad when all these little wrinkles are ironed out.

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