1980 FC with Cat 3802 - fan bearing replacement - any history of problems?

[davidkerryedwards]

I think you'll find a number of people speaking highly of the Horton Air Fan
replacement.
People have had trouble finding replacement parts of the electric fan and
converted to the
Horton.

Kerry
82 FC 35
Denver

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Lewandowski98040" 20.Lewandowski@...> wrote:
>
> Gregory -
>
> Thanks for the tip about the oil pick-up tube and screen.
>
> Yes, one idler pulley bearing was bad, and it has been replaced.
>
> I did hear from Mike already. He told me to pack my bus off to the
> local Cat dealer ( Something that was already part of the plan laid
> out in my original post).
>
> I haven't heard from anyone who has experience with the same fan
> assembly that I have, where the fan shaft and bearing were
> manufactured as one complete unit, for a full-time, clutchless fan.
> It is a five inch shaft permanently wedded to a 2.12 inch wide
> bearing. (Federal Bearing part number PF 36047 for engine model
> 3A3208, AR number 9N 5158)
>
> Apparently, this fan design was abandoned around 1980 because it
> wasn't a successful design, or, alternatively but much less likely, it
> was so successful that I have the only unit that ever failed in
> service and therefore the only such unit that ever needed replacement,
> so no spares were ever stockpiled and no other birder has experience
> replacing this strange duck with something of more modern design.
>
> I'll see what Bluebird says next week.
>
> Thanks again to all who wrote tonight.
>