1964 c10 Aux. cooling/helper fan.

[Mike_The_Grad]

When truck is up to temp the needle rides right in the middle between hot and cold. It will stay there as long as your driving and not idling for long periods of time. When my dad was talking to the neighbor for about 5 minutes after the truck had already been driven for a while, he looked down to notice that the needle had moved up and was almost pegging out the gauge. So he turned it off. Waited a few minutes, turned it back on and started driving and the needle rested where it normally does in the middle of the gauge. I've heard these 292 blocks can run hot because of the cylinder arrangement and design of the cooling system. Regardless, the fan is in and we should have some results in the coming days.

There isn't enough room to mount the fan offset around the cross brace. The fan is 16" diameter and the radiator is almost 25" wide. But the electric motor is about 6" wide and sticks out about an inch too far to clear the crossbrace. So the brace came out. Me and my dad looked at the way the front end is put together and it looks like everything would be ok with out it. Everything is bolted to one another and tight and square. But if we need to put it back in we can bolt back in with some spacers to clear the electric motor.