That fan just puts air through the radiator, cool radiator but hot engine.

> From: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
> Reply-To: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:53:04 +0100
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Questions from a Vanagon Newbie
> 
> snipped-------
> PAGE 25 (1985 manual, PAGE 28 1986 owner's manual) "DO NOT STOP ENGINE
> IMMEDIATELY AFTER HARD OR EXTENDED DRIVING. KEEP ENGINE RUNNING AT INCREASED
> IDLE FOR ABOUT TWO MINUTES TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE HEAT BUILD UP."
> end snipped------
> 
> This is interesting... I had NEVER heard of that, but it makes complete
> sense. I thought you were going to tell us to NEVER TURN YOUR ENGINE OFF...
> which also makes sense.. not so practical, but an interesting concept.
> 
> My question is... When the car is off, and the front fan goes on, and often
> stays on (in my '91 Golf it will stay on for 15 minutes sometimes) what is
> this actually doing??
> 
> If there is no convection, then blowing on the radiator is not really
> cooling the temperature in the system after the engine is shut off... or am
> I missing something? (the Golf could be cooling off the engine directly, I
> guess, as it is all together in the front of the car... but the Vanagon??)
> 
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> Robert S. Fish
> Salzburg, Austria
> 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
> 1987 Golf Cabriolet
> 1991 Golf
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