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2CViking
viking bastard
Joined: April 18th, 2009, 11:43 am
Posts: 2424
Location: Meneac, Bretagne France
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 Re: Fan stuck. I don't buy that Sean. The fan belt will stretch even split long before the hub.
It only takes one small hair line crack and the hub will seperate eventually. While this is slowly working its way around many more tools has hit the hub. Most hubs last beyond 20 odd years (original) however reproduction not
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| February 15th, 2013, 7:45 pm |
 
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ken
Agony Aunt - You have a car problem? Speak to Ken
Joined: March 6th, 2009, 1:40 am
Posts: 3675
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Re: Fan stuck. Of course, poor design of the later fan pulleys didn't help either.   Earlier fan pulley, designed by engineers, not accountants.,, by slcchassis, on Flickr  Later fan pulley cross section by slcchassis, on Flickr That one in Viking's photograph is sh@gged, ready to go bang on the next good fast run. Don't know why I didn't spot the crack earlier, probably concentrating too much on the rusty extractor...  ken Sean wrote: 2CViking wrote: Rust NEVER sleep. This one is only one year old. Grease is good.  Attachment: fan fracture.jpeg and that one is about to fracture too - its the high speed vibration from the alternator and the design that caused the failure especially if its on an engine that sees lots of revs rather than the shock which has little or no affect on the web of the pulley S
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| February 15th, 2013, 8:59 pm |
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