By the way you never said if you checked out your motor mounts. I made this mistake once and it was driving me crazy until I asked on this site. Even the exhaust was off. Simple check to see which way the U is facing on the mount. Chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

I haven't had a chance to look under the car yet! I hope I can just crawl under it or look inside the hood area to see.

Carrie:



Here is what the motor mount looks like from above on the driver side. and picture of my four core rad with fan.



marv

Hi Marv, is that the original spacer and pulley on the fan? Mine still has the original set up. How close is your fan to the core of the radiator? And is that a flex fan?

The mount is correct.

1956 Fairlane Victoria (ORREO)

 

Overlooking Beautiful Rimrock AZ

Marv, here a a few more photos. The fan bolts to the aluminun angles with flat head bolts that are inserted from the front of the angle. Nothing passes through or is bolted to the radiator core. The aluminum angles bolt to the outer flange of the radiator. The water pump pulley goes on the pump shaft as normal with no spacer and is installed with short allen bolts.

1956 Fairlane Victoria (ORREO)

 

Overlooking Beautiful Rimrock AZ

You should be able to see from the front probably on the passenger side. That would clear up the motor mount question. Chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Carrie:



I pull a trailer with my car. The fan is the 5 blade fan extra cooling fan, the pulley is 55 ford as they used a smaller pulley as 55's had a three blade fan on v8's. I wanted to spin the water pump faster, the spacer is original. The fan has approximately 5/8" clearance to the rad. The spacer is about 7/8" thick.



Look at the picture I took of the drivers side motor mount and see if it is in the same orientation as the picture. Your mounts could be reversed 180 degrees.

I am trying to talk to a freind of mine at work who can fabricate that mount BUT, he doesn't like electric fans. He modifies Jeeps for rock crawling and complained to me that electric fans still overheat the engine or conk out. And he said that rain will mess that fan up. I drive my Merc in all weather. Do any of you guys drive your Y-blocks as a daily driver in the rain and all??

Electric fans do just fine. They've been used by the OEMs for 20+ years now. Everything else adequately sized and functioning properly, if the engine overheats, you got the wrong fan. Some fans are quite popular in the hot rod crowd, Ford Contour dual setups, Lincoln Mark VIII, and others.

If I'm not working on mine, I'm driving it, rain, snow, or shine. They weren't built to sit purdy in a garage.


Lawrenceville, GA