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Just visited the car-truck website, and in the news section there is an article about a new fan drive. It uses a hydraulic motor powered by the PS pump, and uses much less power than the engine driven type. It's standard on the 2001 Grand Cherokee. Good reading.
Ron

 

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Just look to our big brothers, the Class 8 trucks. They all have engine driven fans with names such as Horton controlling the clutch. I don't buy into any of the gas engine technology. The Jeep stationwagon needs something like that just to get more power out of that slug.

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Chris Timochko
1997 5sp 4X4, HX40, BD 4" Brake, Marine Compression, Custom Tuned Injection Pump, 370B Injection Nozzles, Delivery Valves, Governor & AFC Spring Kit, Psychotty Air, Water Injection, NOS Diesel Kit, 6" Chrome Exhaust System, No Smoke Valet Switch, McLeod Dual Disc Clutch, Mag-Hytec Rear Cover, Cummins Chrome Kit, Optima Red Tops, Hadley Bully Horns, Hurst Line Loc, Goodyear Wrangler AT/S 305/70/16s. Test mule for Auto Wurks Diesel race program

 

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Volvo was using hydraulic fan motors on their larger front end loaders three years ago... why are they so far ahead of us Americans ????

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'95 xt cab,slt,4. 10,auto,285 BFG all terrain ko's on Centerline Extreme Billit Comet 3's,K&N,tst 230/605, silencer ring in top of toolbox, boost and pyro in full pillar mt. 164,850 mi and climbing... went to feed the cat and it was GONE !!!!!

 

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The must be coming from Damlier (Damntheirhere). The Germans built a Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive a few years ago that was supposed to be superior to our Diesel Electrics. From what I remember it was pretty god if you got past the high maintenane downtime. Katdiesel you might want ot jump in here and set the record straight - what I'm giving is from memory and goes back a few years.
Happy Trails

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1993 250 4X2 - Banks Power Pack, BD Power Injectors, K&N Air Filter, 6 gauges and tweaked pump. 27lbs boost unloaded.
Horton fan & NV4500 5 speed.

 

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No, the device is an invention from Valeo, I think in France. IF you have the curiosity to find the facts on this item, I doubt you would call it names. One half the horsepower loss than an engine driven fan, absolute perfect duty cycle timing, improved A. C. cooling, engine cooling and less noise.
My wife's 4. 7L Grand Cherokee a "slug"? Don't know much about automobiles, do you?
Ron

 

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I think Cadillac shutters like the road trucks have would be the cats meow! A capsule filled with beeswax in the radiator tank expands with heat and pushes the shutters open - infinite modulation according to water temp!