dank1945
Hippo Hands man
Hi,
Just came back from 5 day holiday to Somerset, PA with my '94 F350 7.3L IDI, with an 8' slide in camper and towing my motorcycle on a trailer. For the first time I had no hickups of any kind (600 mile return trip), and burned 50/50 veggie oil/diesel 99% of the time. No fuel leaks, new electric pump worked good, only problem was having to replace the fuel ahead of the pump because of the veggie oil cleaning up the fuel tank, and getting clogged up.
Upon returning to St. Catharines, ON (home), after unloading the camper from the truck, I heard a loud CLANG!! when shutting off the engine. Started it again, and everything seemed to be fine. Today I noticed a big wet patch on the gravel driveway under the rad, and looking inside, the FAN had come off the shaft!! Of course, it scraped the heck out of my 3 month old $440 aluminum rad in several places, which caused the antifreeze leak ($120 worth of antifreeze just put in too!)
I had never heard of these fans coming off by themselves!
Anyway, I'm going to do now the electric fan conversion, which I was going to put off until next year. I wanted to take a break from working on the truck and enjoy it for a while the rest of the season.
Does anyone have any new wisdom to add to the existing threads describing the conversion using a Windstar setup?
Thanks in advance for your input.
PS I just about had enough of this truck, I'm seriously considering a newer Dodge with the Cummins engine. Only problem, I've put so much time, mostly, and of course also some money in trying to make it a reliable machine. The $64,000 question is: when do you pull the plug??? and say enough is enough???
Dan
Just came back from 5 day holiday to Somerset, PA with my '94 F350 7.3L IDI, with an 8' slide in camper and towing my motorcycle on a trailer. For the first time I had no hickups of any kind (600 mile return trip), and burned 50/50 veggie oil/diesel 99% of the time. No fuel leaks, new electric pump worked good, only problem was having to replace the fuel ahead of the pump because of the veggie oil cleaning up the fuel tank, and getting clogged up.
Upon returning to St. Catharines, ON (home), after unloading the camper from the truck, I heard a loud CLANG!! when shutting off the engine. Started it again, and everything seemed to be fine. Today I noticed a big wet patch on the gravel driveway under the rad, and looking inside, the FAN had come off the shaft!! Of course, it scraped the heck out of my 3 month old $440 aluminum rad in several places, which caused the antifreeze leak ($120 worth of antifreeze just put in too!)
I had never heard of these fans coming off by themselves!
Anyway, I'm going to do now the electric fan conversion, which I was going to put off until next year. I wanted to take a break from working on the truck and enjoy it for a while the rest of the season.
Does anyone have any new wisdom to add to the existing threads describing the conversion using a Windstar setup?
Thanks in advance for your input.
PS I just about had enough of this truck, I'm seriously considering a newer Dodge with the Cummins engine. Only problem, I've put so much time, mostly, and of course also some money in trying to make it a reliable machine. The $64,000 question is: when do you pull the plug??? and say enough is enough???
Dan