F-150 fan clutch issue: second act
Re: this first thread, today I got a chance to hitch up and try out my new $2700 repair (torque converter, valve body, cooling radiator unit, misc. new clamp, fluids, and gaskets). This was supposed t...
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BenK wrote:
Did they increase the number of data points for the data logger? Other
than the typical on board computer sensed points? Were there additional
thermal sensors added? Mainly to the radiator and the rest of the
cooling system.
What did the data logger report? You get a detailed copy?
Did they IR read the whole frontal cross section of the main radiator?
A properly working radiator should NOT have much of a variation on the
cold side
Otherwise...just reaffirmation that the ATF gets hot enough to turn
on the fan clutch...
Well, I thihk it's obvious to all of us the answer is likely "NO". And they wouldn't begin to tell me unless I knew to ask. They left a message on my phone to call them tomorrow I sure for further discussion and planning the next phase repair. You can be sure any further discussion will include how they arrived at the current diagnosis, because I'm in no mood to take another stab in the dark. No call back from my lawer today. Hopefully something constructive to report tomorrow. However, hope is not a strategy. And if it were, I'd be sorely lacking in the commodity.
