> Subject: Re: IML: Overheating Imperials? > From: PAUL WENTINK <randalpark@xxxxxxx> > > If they were built with factory air, they had clutched fans when new. > Someone else posted that these fans were introduced in 1957. The > earliest factory A/C Imperials I have are 1960 models, and they both > came with clutched fans.I guess the fans were incorrectly replaced before I bought them, then. Learn something new every day.
In any case, a clutched fan will not necessarily take up all the slack of highway driving air flow, when forced to slow down suddenly. Air-forcing from high-speed travel moves a lot more air through the radiator than even a locked-up fan at idle.
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