Hey everyone,
Thanks to work blocking this page, I have not been around much. bunch of losers. Anyway, my S3 has been going great guns over the last few months, been camping on the beach with plenty of soft sand driving - luv it, but I went down the local dirt/mud track for the second time this year, and since we have had plenty of rain over in Brisbane, there was plenty of mud and water. I had been driving around for about 5 min when I went through a track of water, probable 2/3 up the tyres in the track, but not real deep between the track if you kbow what I'm saying. Anywaynot far into it there's a tapping noise. I kept going for about 10 meters not wanting to stop in the middle of the track ( the tracks probably bout 50 m long). However thinking something was quite amiss I stopped and turned the engine off. popped the bonnet and found that a fan blade had bent around and was hitting the radiator. Quite a Mess indeed.
Has this ever happened to anyone else. My father I remember told me that if I ever was going through a lot of water I had to take the fan belt off. in my opinion, I didnt think this was a lot of water. Apparently the when the fan hits the water it sucks on to the radiator, and I gather it does what mine did. I can tell you I was not very happy
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Anyway, now that I have ADSL, hopefully I will be in here a lot more frequently, but with out the bad news.
Dick
Thanks to work blocking this page, I have not been around much. bunch of losers. Anyway, my S3 has been going great guns over the last few months, been camping on the beach with plenty of soft sand driving - luv it, but I went down the local dirt/mud track for the second time this year, and since we have had plenty of rain over in Brisbane, there was plenty of mud and water. I had been driving around for about 5 min when I went through a track of water, probable 2/3 up the tyres in the track, but not real deep between the track if you kbow what I'm saying. Anywaynot far into it there's a tapping noise. I kept going for about 10 meters not wanting to stop in the middle of the track ( the tracks probably bout 50 m long). However thinking something was quite amiss I stopped and turned the engine off. popped the bonnet and found that a fan blade had bent around and was hitting the radiator. Quite a Mess indeed.
Has this ever happened to anyone else. My father I remember told me that if I ever was going through a lot of water I had to take the fan belt off. in my opinion, I didnt think this was a lot of water. Apparently the when the fan hits the water it sucks on to the radiator, and I gather it does what mine did. I can tell you I was not very happy
.Anyway, now that I have ADSL, hopefully I will be in here a lot more frequently, but with out the bad news.
Dick
