8BA in a 1941 ford

oldskool

oldskool

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i just sent out my 59ab to the rebuilder and if its n/g plan B i have a 50 8ba out of a pickup and would lke to insall it in my 41 coupe,the only issue i have is the fan is mounted higher on the 8BA compaired to the crank mounted one on the 59ab and would have upper hose clearence issues,i have seen this on a 40 ford and look like the guy used a smaller fan blade mounted to the stock 8ba fan pulley that has 8 mounting bolts,i want to use a machanical fan so this would be ideal,does anyone knoww what fan blade would mount to the original 8ba fan hub and work .thanks al
 
Marv said:
Why not use an electric fan? Marv
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im running a 6v system,with gen ,i don't think a 6 volt fans would cool it,i may be wrong but i had a 6 volt fan on a different applacation and it would,nt cool beans,i prefer machanical fan if possible..
 
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When running the 8BA style top mount distributor, the fan and pumps are spaced out further to the front, which can create a problem with the radiator. You may need to play with the spacing but one possibility is to use a generator mounted fan. The 41 rad has a relatively high top tank so this could work by using one of the earlier 4 blade fans that mount to the gen pulley by 4 bolts. This no doubt means changing the gen over to the 33-39 (std) type generator.
 
I fabricated an adapter to mount the 41 style fan onto my 8BA wide belt crankshaft pulley. Works great, I think I will patent it.
 
If you are talking rebuild, the late engine can be built using early cam and all the '41 or '42-8 front accessories including the '41 fan setup. Shorter, uses original bits, has a better distributor...
 
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