Can You Help My Luddite Brother?
My brother, who is computer illiterate, would like to add a side air scoop to help push more air into the side radiator on his Dutch Star. I am requesting your input on 2 things and will happily relay...
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I can understand wanting to increase cooling on a side radiator MH. I have one and at times when climbing in HOT weather, I'm very aware of my RPM's to keep fluids moving thru the system. To be sure, I'm anal about watching my gauges although in 16 plus years of ownership, this has never reached critical mass.
Just for kicks, the worst incident I ever had on over heating had more to do with Transmission Temps than it did with water. While coming down a fairly steep incline and using my true "Jake" brake all the way down, immediately after the incline we ended up in dead stop traffic, the outside temps were in the 100+ range. I had to keep shifting into neutral to try to lower the Trans temp. Soon after this I considered an electric fan to turn on only in circumstances described above although I never did follow through with this thought and 10+ years later, all is still going strong.
PS...On another note, I see the comment about "notifying" the Mod's about this topic has been removed. I can only guess that someone may have thought "Luddite" was something terrible....its NOT and yes, I had to look it up. :-)
Just for kicks, the worst incident I ever had on over heating had more to do with Transmission Temps than it did with water. While coming down a fairly steep incline and using my true "Jake" brake all the way down, immediately after the incline we ended up in dead stop traffic, the outside temps were in the 100+ range. I had to keep shifting into neutral to try to lower the Trans temp. Soon after this I considered an electric fan to turn on only in circumstances described above although I never did follow through with this thought and 10+ years later, all is still going strong.
PS...On another note, I see the comment about "notifying" the Mod's about this topic has been removed. I can only guess that someone may have thought "Luddite" was something terrible....its NOT and yes, I had to look it up. :-)
