[edhd58]

Well yesterday it seems I had both an air flow issue and a possible capacity issue. One person thought the fan belt may have been just a little loose. At idle in the traffic jam leaving the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville it got to 200 degrees. It never boiled over, it never percolated but I didn't like it being at 200 degreets. Once I got out of heavy traffic and got rolling it cooled back down to about 160 to 170 when I was 45 to 55 miles an hour.
When I got on Interstate 65 and was running 65 to 70 miles an hour the temperature climb back up to 190 and pretty much stayed there. The thing is I have a 180 thermostat in it so my thinking is it should have stayed down around 180.
While at the Street Rod Nationals yesterday I did purchase a 16-inch Pusher fan that I'm going to install on it today.
This means I'm thinking I am going to do away with the regular fan and the fan shroud.
Any opinions on keeping the regular fan with the electric fan versus doing away with the regular fan with the electric fan installed.
One thing I did notice in tearing this thing down and getting ready to install the electric fan is that the water pump shaft has possibly two different lengths bells the fan mounts to and I've included the picture of those.
With the installation of the electric fan I am not going to worry about which Bell is on the water pump.
one thing I'm doing today is I am going to get a 160-degree thermostat to replace the 180-degree thermostat.