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Originally Posted by jtgh
Best post , for me?
saving motor with broken fan belt. fan made pump spin just enough to save the motor. Chock one up ,for a real fan.
never happened to me i do real PM's on cars. (since 65) Gatorbelts ! Rule.
retired yesterday .
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The belt was one month old and broke at the splice, brand new Nissan part.
Seems a little arrogant to ASSUME someone else does not do PMs.
Maybe your boat has a few leaks you have not discovered.
Spinning a fan blade backwards was an effective demonstration to a customer, very convincing to those who had been jerked around by other unscrupulous mechanics, many who recommended all kinds of PM that had nothing to do with solving their problems.
Kind of an admission fee to their little world of "I am the only really good mechanic on the planet" syndrome.
Maybe a different customer philosophy, but PM can be done by any amateur, while real diagnosis and repair of the cause of the problem is the test of 30 years without a summons to appear to explain your procedures.
No assumptions in this post, eh?
regards
Mech