Gary is right, cooling just the radiator does have an almost instantaneous effect on the cooling system pressure. I had a pressure gauge and pump on a Vanagon cooling system a few weeks ago trying to find a leak. With the engine hot and running at a fast idle the pressure in the system would drop by several PSI in a few seconds each time the fan started and then slowly climb back up after the fan shut down. I put the lowest temp switch I could find in one of my Syncros this summer but took it out when the fan started running way too much on warm days. Mark
Gary hradek wrote: > Mathew, mathew, mathew, > yee of so little faith, if I did not know > better I would say yeh name is thomas. > The after shutdown cooling fan action is about > cooling the radiator and coolant in the radiator not > the motor. By this air flow, overboiling is > prevented. It's the old pv equals nrt equation. If > T temperature goes up than pressure and or volume > goes up and coolant goes pissing our the back blue cap > into the overflow everytime you shut off a hot engine. > > Which brings me to my busdepot question. > Busdepot sells a sensor switch which is a lower > temperature switch for the two speed radiator fan. > Does anyone know if it works better? > thanks gary > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:30:49 -0700 > From: Matthew <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU> > Subject: Re: fan switch or sensor > > yes, but it is stupid. On the a2's the fan will pull > air through the > radiator and over the engine to cool it. Whereas the > vanagon will pull > air over the radiator but that air doesn't get over > the engine nor does > the coolant cycle. What is needed is a small electric > pump that will > cycle coolant while the after-run coolant fan is on. > Unless there is > enough thermo-syphoning going on to make it work. > Doubt it. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > |
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