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From: chevy@ihuxq.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: re: cardboard on the radiator
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Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 17:14:55 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 17:14:55 1984
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By the by:

If you cover your radiator with cardboard, make sure the cardboard
covers ALL of the fan blades. If you don't, what happens is the fan blade
has nice and smooth going when it's behind the cardboard, but when it hits
the wind (you're moving, of course) it shakes the fan blade and
weakens the metal. Later, (after a few years of doing this) you or
your friendly mechanic is doing something under the hood, a fan blade
breaks off and cuts a severe hole in you or your friendly mechanic.

I know someone who this happened to, but he was lucky; the fan blade
hit the hood of the car first, put a nice big cut in it, then bounced
off the hood and hit his arm. He only needed about 20 stiches, he
lived.

Especially on older cars - the ones where the heat isn't too hot -
this is not a recommended practice. Change the bloody thermostat or
reverse flush the system to clean that heater core out.
-- 
	Kris Sherwin
	AT&T Bell Laboratories - IW