poor mans geardrive!!
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From: buckeye,az
poor mans geardrive!!
i was told if u drill two to three small holes in each one of your fan blades that will make the sound of a bit higher noise geardrive and a bit quiter sound of a blower whine, is this true?
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Fans are balanced so they do not vibrate. Because when they vibrate, the metal gets stressed in the blades, along with other engine components, and the blades can fly off at any time. Sometimes with deadly impact. At the very least, when you lose a fan blade you usually munch the water pump too.
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I can not see this making any kind of noise. Maybe.........
But WHY????
Have you actually heard the noise those "noisy" gear drives make?? What a nuisance. Day in and day out.
I've got the real thing(6-71) on my Galaxie and it is no where as obnoxious as a gear drive.
Larry
But WHY????
Have you actually heard the noise those "noisy" gear drives make?? What a nuisance. Day in and day out.
I've got the real thing(6-71) on my Galaxie and it is no where as obnoxious as a gear drive.
Larry
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I ran a noisy gear drive in a daily driver when I was 19. Boy was that a mistake! I hated it from day one. It's one of those things that everyone seems to like but you and your neighbors! 
I will admit though that it did intimidate the import crowd.
I will admit though that it did intimidate the import crowd.
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I think I got you all beat. When I was a kid, I used a clothes pin and clipped a playing card to the frame of my bike and the spokes of the wheels would make it sound like... like...
Well, it just made noise.
Well, it just made noise.
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All the kids in my neighborhood did that with the cards. We had a nice shaded private drive to ride up and down behind my house ~500 feet long so all the kids came over and we rode for hours. It was safe for even the little kids. If we wanted to go on longer rides there was about 20 feet of dirt path over to another drive that was about twice as long. The old man whose yard we cut thru on the path loved kids and fixed our bikes for us. He didn't even mind the path as long as we didn't stray
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When I was younger and working on my Uncle's farm, we had a fan blade let loose on the John Deere Combine. The blade put a severe dent in the heavy sheetmetal engine cover, then threw the cover open and flew through the air like a mortar. We never found the Blade. If it had hit anybody, they would have been either killed or seriously hurt. I would advise not drilling the fan blades for the sake of niose.
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I lost a blade on my '69 F100. It was the stock fan. I was tinkering under the hood before I went cruising one saturday night. I closed the hood and left. I back out of the drive and just as I let up on the clutch I heard this loud clank noise and the truck actually started to slightly vibrate(from the off balance). I pulled over and looked to see the blade had broken off. That was not bad enough, when it let go....it went UP instead of down/over and it put a nice tall LUMP in my nice shiny hood 
. Man was I P-O'd. Geesh, that lump is still in my hood after 10 yrs.
To think I was just under setting the idle mixture with my head right near it. Guess I was lucky it only tried going thru my HOOD not my HEAD.
Larry
. Man was I P-O'd. Geesh, that lump is still in my hood after 10 yrs.To think I was just under setting the idle mixture with my head right near it. Guess I was lucky it only tried going thru my HOOD not my HEAD.
Larry
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I hate when that happens! One of my blades flew off and hit the hood frame/channel thing leaving a small hole in it. It then bounced down and cracked my fuel pump. The engine shook pretty good. With the noise and all, I thought I threw a rod. I just took the fan off and drove home. I figured the little bit of fuel leaking wasn't big enough a deal to leave me stranded. I try to stay clear of the fan when possible these days.
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From: buckeye,az
jesus cryminey!!!!!! this is a big deal then i dont wana lose anything or brake anything under my under my hood ive good some money in it. i dont wana lose my life or cause the lose of anybody elses life to be tooken away over some whine to intemate an import or to impress chicks! anybody got 350 bucks i can borrow to but me one? hahahaha.... or let mr have one ? its just a simple geardrive!
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I was going to put electric fans on it for like a year. After this happened...it pretty much MADE me do it. Course now I have this lump in the hood of my truck .
Some day when the money is there I will get the hood fixed and the whole truck painted.
Larry
.Some day when the money is there I will get the hood fixed and the whole truck painted.
Larry