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Originally Posted by Diesel Dan
My fan blade was lodged against the radiator. As I tried to move it, a chunk of one of the plastic blades broke off, and the fan was freed. Now I wonder why my fan was in contact with the radiator all of a sudden, when it was spinning freely before?
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The front radiator support on these cars bends inward VERY easily. If you tapped a curb with the front of the car when parking, this pushes the bottom of the radiator into the fan blade. With the metal fan blades, this destroys the radiator. To be fixed properly it really needs to go to a body shop to have the support pulled out. The lower engine shield also won't fit properly, as the holes won't line up anymore.
If this is what happened, you need to fix it ASAP. You can attempt a partial fix using a bottle jack against the support, braced against the sway bar, with a wood block between the sway bar and oil pan. But it won't fully correct it, and it's not the right way to fix it. I'd be surprised if this wasn't the cause... I've had this on both of my '87s.
02-17-2007, 12:42 AM
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