Texas Kooler Fan Availability?

[westcirque]

Hello,

My BJ8 has the original 4 blade fan. It runs pretty hot when stuck in traffic (we had an entertaining time Friday night driving downtown to my son's grad - bridge police incident - 10 minutes iding in hot traffic - almost stalled in mega traffic with my wife and son in the car).

This got me researching online how to deal with engine heat and the consensus seems to be that the Texas Kooler fan is the first thing to try. But Moss no longer sells them.

Does anyone know of a source?

Thanks,

Boiling in Vancouver.....

 

[Keoke]

Not sure :

However, try these folks they may know:-www.ntahc.org

 

[steveg]

Denis Welch sells a modern 5-blade plastic fan:
https://www.bighealey.co.uk/performance/austin-healey/cooling-2?page=2

IMO the Texas Coolers and 6-blade stainless fans are no longer sold by Moss because they both had failure issues.

 

[rjc157]

Give Auto-Farm a call their in Canada

 

[westcirque]

The Denis Welch blade looks nice. thx

 

[shortsguy1]

The 5 bladed red plastic fan sold by DW is a repurposed BMW 2002tii fan. If you are able to do a little custom fitting yourself, perhaps ordering the BMW part is a little cheaper.

 

[Patrick67BJ8]

Not sure :

However, try these folks they may know:-www.ntahc.org

Tom's Imports bought the last remaining original stock from the estate of the late Don Lenschow. You may try Tom to see if he has any left.

 

[steveg]

The 5 bladed red plastic fan sold by DW is a repurposed BMW 2002tii fan. If you are able to do a little custom fitting yourself, perhaps ordering the BMW part is a little cheaper.

Looks like DW includes a center adapter.

 

[westcirque]

Yes - although I think I could be able to make an adapter. I will see if I can find a 2002 fan.

 

[shortsguy1]

Yes, I agree DW includes a large round piece of metal that fits the center hub, which does not come with the fan if you purchase elsewhere. Also, if you use the 3D viewer on the DW website, you can see that they had to drill new holes through the center hub for our engines.

I have no idea if shipping from the UK to Canada is expensive, but I just wanted the original poster to understand he may have other options if he has some of his own manufacturing abilities. I certainly don't want to undercut DW, as those sorts of businesses are invaluable to us. If the original poster had been in the UK, I would not have mentioned it.

 

[shortsguy1]

As an aside, if someone desperately wants a Texas Kooler fan, please contact me privately and I can provide the name of a vendor who claims to have a very small number in stock. I had a bad experience with the vendor, so I do not want to advertise for them here. But I also don't want to flame them publicly, as perhaps my experience was just a fluke and they are a good vendor overall. I am new to this community and want to be respectful of those who have been Healey owners and suppliers for a lot longer than myself.

And to be clear, this vendor has not been mentioned so far in this thread.

 

[RAC68]

IMHO, the Texas Cooler is only one component that can be easily applied but will not resolve your HOT Traffic problem without a few other simple modifications. Take a look at some of the additional things that could be done to address your issue.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx4EjcJmfaScY0NLdlB0YjEwRFE/view?usp=sharing

Good Luck,
Ray (64BJ8P1)

 

[Keoke]

Yes - although I think I could be able to make an adapter. I will see if I can find a 2002 fan.

Yes you can.

I made one for my Texas cooler fans. Let me remind you that balance is extremely important.
Consequently, the "Spacer" was made using1/2" aluminum and turned on a lathe, the diameter of the spacer was equal to the diameter of flat center section of the fan.
The mounting holes in the spacer matching those in the pump pulley were located and bored using a milling machine.

Remounting of the fan with the spacer showed the extreme flexing I initially saw in the fan was no longer of significance.

 

[shortsguy1]

The center adapter that steveg noted above with the DW 5 bladed plastic fan appears to be some sort of reinforcement at the bolt holes. It provides no additional depth to move the fan towards the radiator, so that is a little different than what Keoke is describing.

 

[Keoke]

It provides no additional depth to move the fan towards the radiator,

Good Point:
However, mine does not either because it fits in front of the fan's center.
Placing the Spacer behind the fan will not stiffen it

 

[shortsguy1]

Oh, sorry about that. I misunderstood the purpose is the 1/2 inch thick adapter. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[steveg]

The cost of the DW fan with hub adapter is $60.80 USD plus shipping; the BMW fan on Amazon is $54.17 with free shipping (US only maybe) - so unless one has access to free or nearly-free machine work and the desire to do the engineering, it makes economic sense to buy the DW product.

 

[Keoke]

The cost of the DW fan with hub adapter is $60.80 USD plus shipping;

OMG!

Sure glad we don't have to pay VAT too.:glee:

 

[shortsguy1]

Just to help anyone else out who is maintaining a Healey on a tight budget (I know, I know, a nearly impossible exercise), the BMW 2002tii 5 bladed red plastic fan is available from several vendors at a lower price than Amazon. In fact, the MSRP at the BMW dealer is $41 USD, so you can definitely find it for less than $40 online. If anyone cares, the part number is 11521255505. Steveg is absolutely right that DW's price is very fair and the savings of going directly to BMW are modest at best.

 

[RAC68]

I'm a little confused. If you can buy (or order) the fan and pick it up at your local BMW dealer, it seems to be that you would save on the purchase price,the shipping (not that inexpensive to me), and have a shorter or no wait.

Am I missing something?
Ray (64BJ8P1)