Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...

[Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure the fans are spinning the correct
direction?  Maybe you wired them backward!


--- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It was last summer that I hade Hervey tune up my
> car, he changed the plugs, 
> cap and rotor
> and a few other things. Cost me about $400 or more
> for the stuff he did but 
> to be honest
> I don't think the car really needed it because I
> couldn't feel a difference.
> 
> One major issue I keep having is my high idle.
> It idles so high that I can curise down the road at
> 40PMH and never touch 
> the gas.
> The tach hovers around 1500/2000 at idle.
> I have the adjustment all the way to the bottom, and
> the switch is 
> working.....
> 
> I took the car for a ride last night, it was a
> fairly cool night as compared 
> to the 90+ weather
> we have been having, so with the AC off it seems to
> be OK, ran a c-hair over 
> the first mark
> but was doing fine. SO I got cocky and tried the AC.
> IN about a 2 miles the needle was climbing.
> Something about that AC is causeing some major heat
> issues.
> 
> The thing about Hervey's fans is, they are totally
> not nessesary unless you 
> have damaged
> your OEM fans and shroud.
> In my situation I had a front end collision and my
> radiator was broken, the 
> fans had fried up
> and the shroud exploded.
> I needed to replace it all....so Hervey's fans were
> a good solution.
> However, you would be better off to buy one of his
> larger alternators like a 
> a Brute 150
> and then you would have all the power you need for
> the fans.
> The original fans have some serious blow, and you
> can hear them running.
> Hervey's new fans are more subtle and quite, you
> have to stick your head 
> down
> by the front of the car to hear them running!
> Besides, if you go to most any hot-rod shop you can
> buy fans like these 
> fairly cheap,
> strap or weld two of them together and strap them to
> the radiator yourself.
> 
> I know that one of the things I am going to do in my
> BTTF conversion is 
> install two small
> fans on the decklid to blow engine heat out the
> aluminum vents so they will 
> have some
> function. I bet it would make a difference.
> 
> - VB
> 
> >From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
> >Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:40:26 -0500
> >
> >Maybe it is not tuned up properly. I was told if it
> is tuned properly
> >you dont even need fans. HA HA HA.
> >
> >I am really leaning to the cooling fans you
> installed being the
> >problem. I hope this is not the issue though
> because i have been
> >thinking of getting that set you bought from John
> Hervey.
> >
> >The missing shroud around the radiator shouldn't
> make a difference too
> >much if it is missing, i dont have one on my car.
> >
> >Mark V
> >
> >
> >
> >On Jul 9, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
> >
> > > ...when one of your hoses explodes and blows
> antifreeze all over the
> > > back
> > > window and boiling green blasts all over the
> place.... hot enough for
> > > ya?
> > > This is what happened to me a few weekends ago.
> > > I decided to take it for a cruise in downtown
> Dallas on warm night.
> > > It stayed pretty normal on the 20 mile trip
> there with the AC on low.
> > > Once I got into the stop and go of cruising it
> started to get hot.
> > > I decided to take a side street and head for the
> highway to cool it
> > > down,
> > > the needle was rising, I turned off the AC and
> switch to the heater to
> > > pull
> > > the heat out
> > > but it was too late, the needle was rising and
> then BOOM, SPLASH!
> > > I sat in a parking lot with a blasted hose until
> 4am.
> > > I managed to get a friend to find an all night
> auto parts store and
> > > get me
> > > a peice of hose.
> > > My hoses were new, only a year old, I had put
> all of Heverys replacment
> > > hoses
> > > on but this one decided to split right up the
> middle!
> > >
> > > Something is going on.....
> > >
> > > - VB
> > >
> > >> From: "therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>
> > >> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Coolant question...
> > >> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:38:22 -0000
> > >>
> > >> VB, what do you consider "overheating"? How far
> does the needle creep
> > >> up, and where does it hover around when
> driving?
> > >>
> > >> -Robert
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob
> Moseley" <videobob@xxxx>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> It is one of Hervey's new larger metal
> radiators.
> > >>> - VB
> > >>>
> > >>>> From: Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx>
> > >>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>>> Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Coolant question...
> > >>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:23:47 -0700 (PDT)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> How old is the radiator?  Maybe it is
> clogged?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --- Videobob Moseley <videobob@xxxx> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> I am still having my over heating problem.
> > >>>>> I have topped off the coolant, and I have an
> air
> > >>>>> bleeder installed.
> > >>>>> I have wired the fans to be on full time,
> still the
> > >>>>> car over heats.
> > >>>>> Mostly with the AC on, you can get around OK
> with
> > >>>>> the AC off, but
> > >>>>> within minutes of turning the AC on the
> needle
> > >>>>> rises.
> > >>>>> The water appears to be flowing, and the
> fans are
> > >>>>> on....
> > >>>>> I must mention that I do have Hervey's new
> fans
> > >>>>> installed.
> > >>>>> They are very quite, you can barely hear
> them
> > >>>>> running.
> > >>>>> So, I am not sure if they are running as
> fast as
> > >>>>> they need to be
> > >>>>> because I have no frame of reference to
> compare them
> > >>>>> to because when
> > >>>>> I first got my car it was November, and then
> I
> > >>>>> wrecked it in July and
> > >>>>> replaced
> > >>>>> the OEM fans with Herveys, so I have only
> > >>>>> experienced his fans in the
> > >>>>> summer.
> > >>>>> The Texas summer is brutal....
> 
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