Kestas
Staff member
Here's my story. I had a 74 Torino with a flex fan. The blades fatigued and broke off, damaging the radiator.
Ford had a well-publicized recall on flex fans at the time. They were breaking off and injuring mechanics. So I skipped over to the dealer, fully expecting recall work done on my Torino. They told me my car didn't qualify because it didn't have a big enough engine. The recall was limited to the 400 engines. I had a 351W. How infuriating!!!... Wat does engine size have to do with fan rpm and the fan breaking apart???
It dawned on me that the NHTSA doesn't have the driving public's best interests in mind. Apparently, they compromised with Ford and let Ford talk them into only recalling cars with big block engines, leaving the rest of us out in the cold. I wrote NHTSA and told them my story, saying I was working on my car and that the blade narrowly missed me. Nothing came of it.
Ford had a well-publicized recall on flex fans at the time. They were breaking off and injuring mechanics. So I skipped over to the dealer, fully expecting recall work done on my Torino. They told me my car didn't qualify because it didn't have a big enough engine. The recall was limited to the 400 engines. I had a 351W. How infuriating!!!... Wat does engine size have to do with fan rpm and the fan breaking apart???
It dawned on me that the NHTSA doesn't have the driving public's best interests in mind. Apparently, they compromised with Ford and let Ford talk them into only recalling cars with big block engines, leaving the rest of us out in the cold. I wrote NHTSA and told them my story, saying I was working on my car and that the blade narrowly missed me. Nothing came of it.
