Hi Folks,
My brother had a nightmare trip away and we were just wondering if anyone had experienced this or any feedback on what could of possibly caused this?
Gu ute, 6.5 Chev and he recently spent a small fortune on a new custom brass radiator and removed the fan and replaced with 2 x 16" Davies Craig rear thermo fans as he had overheating issues.
Has had them on for a few months now but only around town driving, not much highway use. Prior to the trip everything was running like a dream. Even testing it out on our radiator hill from Yarra Glen was the best it had ever ran.
Long story short, towing his camper up to the Murray doing 110km. Just before Shepparton he noticed the water temp was at 3/4. Pulled over and noticed one of the fans had died.
Thermo fan motor still worked but noticed the plastic mould of the fan blades that wrap around the nut that sits on the shaft of the motor had basically been stripped away. Almost like it had melted around the nut and stripped it.
Another 10 km's down the road and the other fan did the same thing so he was in trouble and car was overheating.
Stopped into shep (Fletches workshop) and checked everything out.
Radiator is brand new, dead straight, the install was done correctly and wired up correctly, etc. No install issue so the only choice was to replace it with another one as he had to keep driving.
There was only one in town so they put that on and another 100km's down the road that one stripped too!
Manufacturer dates are all different (5 months apart).
Has anyone stripped thermo fans before?
We are lost for why this has happened???
It was working fine around town for a couple of months prior but never did long highway work, we cannot find any hit marks on the radiator or thermo shroud or if they may have flexed on high speeds, etc.