Re: Into Deepest, Darkest, Victoria. Take II
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 1:12 pm
The problem is more likely to be in the thermostatic fan control, in short, a sensor failure. Whilst it's difficult to stop this from happening, there is one thing you can do to guard against it recurring, namely fit a manual override switch in parallel with the thermo switch. Then if the thermo switch fails you can still keep the motor cool and a crisis is averted.
Of course, once you have a redundancy in the system, the thermo switch will work faultlessy for many years! I call it outwitting Murphy's law!
There is another possibility and that is that sufficient coolant was lost that the thermo switch was uncovered and therefore didn't engage the fan which made the engine hotter and more coolant was lost and so on, a vicious spiral! But I don't have enough info to confirm this as even a possibility!
Steve
Of course, once you have a redundancy in the system, the thermo switch will work faultlessy for many years! I call it outwitting Murphy's law!
There is another possibility and that is that sufficient coolant was lost that the thermo switch was uncovered and therefore didn't engage the fan which made the engine hotter and more coolant was lost and so on, a vicious spiral! But I don't have enough info to confirm this as even a possibility!
Steve