Pinto Fan

[Guest jasper3]

Can anyone tell me which way the thread on the big nut behind the fan turns! I have the water pump held but unsure which way to turn its tight! its off to the bin and being replaced by a nice new electric one! Cheers

[Gusty]

I'm sure it's left hand thread. I couldn't get mine undone. 30 years of crud. I threw the lot in the bin and bought a new water pump. About £15 off eBay delivered.

 

Cheers Andy

[Guest jasper3]

I will have a go! (when ive done school run) cheers buddy!

[Guest mower man]

Long punch 2lb hammer a couple of serious strikes and it s yours it is l/h thread done many a one mick

[Guest mdav1970]

I always use a long screw driver on one edge and hit it with a hammer, remember thou its backwards threaded.

[Guest mr D]

When all else fails................................. angry grinder

[Guest jasper3]

Angry grinder it was! Water pump is corroded up an nasty inside but i wanted the pully off it! So grinder had a word!! Its all fun

[Gusty]

BB classics do some good electric fans and reasonable too

[Guest red7]

I'm not really a big fan of the Pinto.

[rthomas69]

Why waste vital horse power spinning one of those fans all the time, electric will only run when needed

[agent_zed]

I'm not really a big fan of the Pinto.

 

i think the OP was asking about the fan 'On' the pinto not about being a fan 'Of' the pinto...

 

they are pretty heavy engines and designed in the 50's but pretty hard to kill and make a lovely noise.

 

i had heard figures up to 5bhp being used up by the thermo-viscous fans but don't have proof other than turning a fan must use energy and even when the engine wasn't hot they still turned. Prob not so important on a stage 1 2ltr but on my 1.6 i need everything i can get

 

I just used the one supplied with my kit which isn't all that big and i don't even have any cowling around it at all (even removed the plastic that it came with) and never had an overheating problem.

[kevin the chicken]

Every little counts. I took a mechanical fan off a landrover once and replaced it with an electric one. It was an ex-military fitted for radio one so was already turning a whacking great 24v alternator and the fan had about ten blades designed for every possible temperature. The difference was really noticeable when you touched the throttle, much more snappy. I think I read somewhere that the alternators fitted to those landrovers absorb about 5hp!

[Guest 2b cruising]

When set up as a coms unit they run lots of the time on idle.

Even when using 2 or 3 large radio transmitters this kept the batteries up to voltage.

Also why such large fans.

Quite easy to bring back to 12v though. As long as you had a donor 12v one handy.