fan direction...I think I am over-thinking it...

[mater69]

So I am debating removing my electric fan and going back to a clutch-style belt driven fan because my electric fan is way too loud...

So I am looking under the hood and see that my water pump spins "clockwise" when I am looking at the front of the motor.

I bought a used water pump, pulley, fan and clutch assembly from an early 80s model 350, but it is set up to run counter-clockwise...so if I spin it clockwise, the fan will push instead of pull air through my radiator. So I just figured I would unbolt the fan from the clutch and just flip it over right? Wrong, it turns out that it is the same air flow direction on both sides. So,

I looked up some fans and they all said "standard rotation"-does this mean clockwise?

And I looked up the fan clutches too and they said they were all clockwise, so my question is....is it clockwise when looking at the front of the motor, or clockwise when sitting in the driver seat looking forward?? I think I just busted a blood vessel in my head...