TEMP TEST RESULTS
Between Original standard 4 blade and 5 blade flex fan on 1940 Packard 120 8 Cylinder.
All readings were taken immediately upon returning home, with engine idling and garage door open to outside. Note - engine block, head, and radiator had been flushed. All readings were taken after flush.

ORIGINAL 4 BLADE FAN -
Air temp 78 degrees - water temp 178 degrees
Air temp 94 degrees - water temp 196 degrees

NEW 5 BLADE FLEX FAN -
Air temp 78 degrees - water temp 172 degrees
Air temp 93 degrees - water temp 176 degrees

While the air temp was 1 degree cooler, a water temp reading was a full 20 degrees lower
I had to bite my lip installing the un-original new fan, after the tests Im glad I did it. I used a standard kitchen meat thermometer and let it rest in the radiator for 2 minuets before recording the temp.
The increased amount of air blowing across the engine and being sucked thru the radiator is dramatic. I have no way to measure it but it must have doubled.
Im considering PROBLEM SOLVED
Now on to the next problem

Almost completed temp test - should have results late today.
Mal Ozstatman from Australia came by today and took some pics of the car to take back with him. Very nice man, wish he could have spent more time with us. Could have put some Bratz on the Barbie but he had to go.

The best, safest thing you can do is what I did:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

It's well worth the money.

Ron,

No worries, remember the only dumb question is the one not asked.

As far as mechanics go in the Southern Califonia area, there are folks that will work on them, but they typically dont come cheap. Custom Auto Service in Santa Ana specializes in Packards.

Also some of the Hot Rod shops also have mechanics on hand that work on older engines. But they may have a long lead time in actually getting to your car.

John, those are great. Can you leave those comments on the acutal picture? When you view those pictures, you can click the comment button and add that info directly to the picture. That helps me to keep track of everything.

Thanks.

BigKevin: Image 1585: 1941 110 Club Coupe

John F. Shireman

Kevin: Image 1584: 1953 Packard May Fair.

John F. Shireman

Thanks guys. I did figure out the search engine and spent the time to read it regarding overheating. Wow so many possibilities. I completed the first half of the log on the original 4 bladed fan. I installed the new flex 5 bladed fan today and will start taking readings tonight and through tomorrow.
Big Kev - while Im not a computer genius I am retired and have time to help with your idea of a Trouble Shooting forum. Sounds like a great idea to me. Apparently I live in an area that doesn't have mechanics that will work on the old ones. Unless they can plug them into a computer and pump them out the door as fast as possible, they don't want to get involved. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance.
As to slow responses, I was just kidding. I've gotten more responses on this site to my questions in 3 weeks than I did on Classicars.com in 6 months. I broke a valve spring and didn't know what was wrong. There I got over 330 views and only 16 replies. 13 of them were mine. After a month of searching for a mechanic I gave up and my grandson and I fixed it ourselves. Only reason Im here is thanks to Turbopakman showing the way.
If Im asking too many questions - just tell me to shut up. It won't work but you are welcome to try. HAHAHAHAHHAHA

Well I think the Warren pics have sat up there for awhile now, so I think it's time to file them into their appropriate Year catagories. So if you can identify the year and model please leave a comment on that actual picture. That way I know which picture you are referring to and I can move it to the correct year folder.

I will also Tag all these picutres as being taken from the Warren show so people will know where/when they were taken.

Thanks for your help,

Thanks for all the advice on my PC problems. I will look into it.

I just finished talking to a Hardware guy here at work and guess what there is/was a virus in the suburbs around here about the same time my PC started to act up. The virus is called disc clean or something like that. I have anti-virus program but he told me by the time they came up with a fix a lot of PCs had already been infected by it. Well guess mine was one of them. Urggggg


Yes I will keep you all informed on my '31 progess.


Take care