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> Can a rag get pass the type 4 fan?, Today's public service announcement.
Mark Henry
post Jan 28 2021, 02:13 PM
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Why yes it can. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Cause of 2.0 dropped seat solved, although the grease between the cylinders didn't help either.



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post Jan 28 2021, 02:25 PM
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The way we found it.



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post Jan 28 2021, 02:32 PM
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It's definitely amazing what you can find in there...
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post Jan 28 2021, 03:28 PM
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There's a member in So Cal who left a rag near the shroud while working on the car and forgot.

Found it later after the valves went south on one of the heads.

They will remain nameless.
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post Jan 28 2021, 03:49 PM
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I've installed these on both my cars. Saved me from myself a couple times.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N7HS3X5

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post Jan 28 2021, 05:45 PM
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I did that once with my 911. I had a towel on the back bumper while I worked on the engine. It started up real nice then made some nasty sounds. The towel didn't make it past the fan belt and got jammed in the crank pulley. I had to cut the belt to get things free.
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post Jan 29 2021, 10:33 AM
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So far on this engine, #3 intake seat dropped, kissed the piston top and it has bus pistons. Plus although this engine internally doesn't look very old the lifters are flat, when they should be slightly convex.
So it looks like this one will be a full build.
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post Jan 29 2021, 10:44 AM
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QUOTE(Spoke @ Jan 28 2021, 05:45 PM) *

I did that once with my 911. I had a towel on the back bumper while I worked on the engine. It started up real nice then made some nasty sounds. The towel didn't make it past the fan belt and got jammed in the crank pulley. I had to cut the belt to get things free.



Yep.. we all make mistakes. Years ago, when I still had a 2.0 in my red car, I accidentally knocked a small pair of vice grips into the fan and didn't notice it.

When I started the car, it made a horrible racket. I shut it down quick. But not before it trashed the fan. I ended up pulling the injection and engine tin, and spent hours picking bits of the fan out of the cylinder and head fins. Luckily I had another fan to replace it.

Funny.. the the vice grips were fine. I still have them and use them.

Mistakes are how you learn. Hopefully your mistakes aren't too expensive.

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post Jan 29 2021, 10:50 AM
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I don't look at them as mistakes....I see them as "tuition" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Plus, life would be boring if everything went as planned. There'd be no great stories. Or pics.
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post Jan 29 2021, 10:58 AM
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QUOTE(iankarr @ Jan 29 2021, 10:50 AM) *

I don't look at them as mistakes....I see them as "tuition" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Plus, life would be boring if everything went as planned. There'd be no great stories. Or pics.


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But there would also be no having to explain to the wife why you are pulling the motor out of your 914 that was running fine a few minutes ago...... Or that you are going to have to spend $$$$$ to fix it because you did something stupid.

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post Jan 29 2021, 12:28 PM
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I was going to say it absolutely can.
Or if you have a beetle, the fan will shred it and evenly distribute it all over the top of the motor.
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post Jan 29 2021, 12:31 PM
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I bet most of us who work on our cars have a story like that... of course I don't... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jan 29 2021, 01:55 PM
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I put one of those center mounted, single two barrel intake systems on my car once, that thing was a mechanical disaster. Does that count?



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post Jan 29 2021, 02:41 PM
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Only thing I can smile about is it wasn't my fault.
I had a similar job with a guy who put dryer sheets in the engine bay, expensive rodent deterrent.
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post Jan 29 2021, 02:48 PM
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This is why they count the tools when you go in for surgery. A friend of a friend keeled over & died because they left a tool inside of her abdomen.
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post Jan 29 2021, 03:52 PM
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+1 on the bus fan grill.

once had the heat blower hose get sucked in there, while on a busy freeway with nowhere safe to pull over, in 95 degree heat...
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post Jan 29 2021, 04:00 PM
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The rag shows the air flow. Found all sorts of things and critter nests under cooling tin. Never a rag though!
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post Jan 29 2021, 05:47 PM
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What's involved with adding the bus fan grill?
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post Jan 29 2021, 06:01 PM
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That grill is some great insurance. I want one.
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post Jan 29 2021, 06:02 PM
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This right?
https://www.busdepot.com/j10983
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