Oh you guys, I've heard really loud vanagon rad fan roaring like 3 times a
year max, and I work on dozens of them full time and live where it's 95+
everyday all summer long.
And an 85 has a two speed van anyway.  ( and an AC van will turn on the fan
hard just by selecting the 'on' on the AC switch, of course, and they do
roar a bit all right )
And sure, it is shocking sometimes when they really hit warp factor all
right,
But I seldom experience it. Like It's pretty rare.
But I don't stress equipment anyway, use a really good coolant
mixture..........
I found this new stuff btw, sort of like water wetter
.....by Royal Purple, that promotes an image of very high end......"Purple
Ice" .......
"radiator super-coolant additive - reduces rad temps, conditions water pump
seals."
I add it as a general treatment on sobbie conversions and all
waterboxers.........
NOT because I'm trying to make up for some deficiency in the van's cooling
system...
Those 83 and up plastic tank radiators........
There is just nothin' wrong with those things baby. If they're 17 + years
old they won't work like you'd like in challenging conditions.........but
you only need to put a new one in once  usually.
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Jake de Villiers
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:45 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: LED to tell when fan is on.

Neil's just putting a rad into his air cooled van and hasn't yet had the
shock/fear/disbelief of hearing Warp Factor Three on the cooling fan.    :)

On Jan 22, 2008 12:31 PM, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Neil, perhaps you should have your hearing checked.  When my F111
> simulator
> fan comes on an LED is clearly superflous.  It is shall we say, very
> noticeable.  Maybe I just have a loud fan though.
>
> Pensioner (replaced fan at 190Kmi)
>

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Jake
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