Electric cooling fan

Posted by Fred Puhn On 2013/8/22 9:23:41

I had the guts yesterday to drive my 23rd series on a 40 mile trip on a 90-plus degree day including mountains and heavy traffic. She ran near boiling. The packard cooling works great when moving, even up hill, but she does not like to sit at idle at lights and traffic jams. I have already done the obvious fixes like a rebuilt radiator and a new water pump. The timing is on the money and the exhaust is new. I don't want to pull the nice running engine now to clean the block, so a quick fix is adding an electric cooling fan in front of the radiator.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a really good electric cooling fan that works on a Packard? Where is the best place to mount it, high or low on the radiator? This could be operated by a manual switch or possibly a thermostatic switch.