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Running on the thruway at 65 when with no warning a loud crack,thud and coolent smell real quick. Stopped and found the water pump shaft had broken and sent that along with the pulley banging around myengine. Now you would expect some damage wouldn't you, but what's the chance of none except for the water pump????? None!!!! Don't know why it broke in the first place, it gave no hint of failure, but I'm glad I didn't have a mechanical fan on it or it probably be a different story.:)
well your lucky it didn't hit the hood and pop it open, that wouldn't have ended well.
Yep, a friend has a nice little '50 Ford with a flatmotor in it. He was going to some distant cruise (Pigeon Fork maybe ?) and the stock fan lost one blade. Looked like someone was trying to louver the hood and kinda messed up.:D :D
Maybe this is one more reason to run an electric fan on a hoodless hot rod.
Don
If a guy showed up at the drag strip with a mechanical fan and no hood, we made him remove the fan before he could make a pass.