At 11:52 AM 4/15/2010, Old Volks Home wrote: >Had a fan switch go bad once, didn't have a spare, so I rigged to have it >manually switched using a spare rear defogger switch in 1999 and haven't >switched back since. Dear Jim, 'Splain me dat, please? Keeping it that way, I mean -- it's not as if it's a difficult install. Why take a chance on cooking the engine by a lapse of attention (or much worse, a bad reading on the temp gauge), when there's a perfectly good automatic method to take care of it? Would you use a manually operated valve to control cooling flow through the engine (don't laugh, people have been known to do it with Atomic 4 marine engines)? There was a big discussion of this on the list maybe ten years ago and I was amazed at the number of people who apparently thought that VW got it all wrong and they needed a supplementary switch to turn on the fan when the driver felt like it, but even they didn't go *without* the automatic. Color me confused... Yours, David |
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