electric fan -- likley fuel savings >?
Re the 290 van, if I am for keeping as my daily driver, is it worth disconnecting the viscous fan and fitting an electric one, currently getting 24.?? mpg tank in tank out. Is it worth the hassle, btw a recon rad was fitted recently. The van is rarely working hard so I guess the fan is not needed most of the time.
Cheers
Marcus
you going to need a single 16" or twin 12". £130 to £150 plus fitting, @ 24mpg its costing you £0.18 a mile, @ 26mpg its costing you £0.17 per mile based on £4.50 a gallon. so the difference is £0.10p. so you need to do 1500 to get you money back before you see the saving, after that for every 1500 miles you save £150.
Is it worth it ?
FSD is that irish for RED !
Does your van have Aircon ?. The thing with pacet is there fans are reversable so if you haven't got room when you get it you can fit it inside and turn the blade round. Why not ring Pacet direct, there very helpful.
Rebuilt the transmission, what happend there then.
hi marcus
long time no hear
i had a similar problem with a 1992 300d back in 1995
i left the car with a guy down your direction (portstewart i think)
i think his name was mervyn witheroe (autobox specialist) total thief and ganster , loan car provided and automatic as promised
a 1980,s austin alegro/ maestro with two gears working in the box
1800 quid to refurb the box and left me with no gears
it started at 7 or 8 hundred and went to 1800
and at that time it was priced at 1500 to get an exchange gearbox fitted with the mercedes dealer
and not a penny back from the specialist
sorry for the moan
cf
Thanks Ian,
You trying to confuse me with £150/1500 miles thing
Would that be the same as 10p/mile, £100/1000miles then
Anyway
You reckon about 2mpg saving
Since I am running on FSD = Free State Diesel,
at about 75 or 80p but 8 or 10,000/annum
=£640 to £800 /year
Its probably worth it
Cheers
Marcus
Been looking at the Pacet info on Deamon Teewks site
I presume it is simpler to fit a pusher fan to the outside of the rad, what odds 2 by 12" vis-a-vis one 16" fan ?
I will look at fitting possibilities this evening,
I may need to pull the rad anyway as it seems to be weeping where the fitting for the auto trans cooling pipe is mounted, it may never have been right from its fairly recent fitment, or the firm that rebuilt the transmission may have done something to upset it