Briggs and Straton Van Gaurd 570 v-twin cooling

[frankiee]

Briggs and Straton Van Gaurd 570 v-twin.
We have am emergency generator with that engine.
It is enclosed with air vents.
The engine oil is hosed to a heat exchanger with a fan on it to blow to the outside.
The electric motor is now good now and I was wondering if that engine is air cooled.
While we wait to get a fan if we did have to use it we will have to even if it means smokeing the engine.
If we open up the to of the enclosure do you think that it will cool enough until the power is on again?
It is winter here now and should be below 0 C now on. Could take a month to get a fan in.
My company moves slow like snail.
The engine should be air cooled? Right??

 

[frankiee]

http://www.commercialpower.com/display/router.asp?DocID=76522

It is that engine in the link provided above.
I can only see the top of the engine.
I can not see the block.

 

[80caprice]

looks air cooled, to be sure, take a look and see if you see fins on the flywheel, and fins on the cylinders. most likely air cooled with a external oil cooler. in the link above, it certainly says nothing about "liquid cooled" on any vanguard except those that state LC for liquid cooled.

 

[JTK]

There are no vanguard series liquid cooled engines as far as I am aware. You should be fine running the gen-set in the winter w/out the fan for the oil cooler. Just check/change the oil more often.
G/luck
Joel