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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
I agree that toggling a fan manually is not that difficult. But I also agree that someone with less mechanical sympathy driving your car would be a bad thing with a manual toggle.
However, I also once had an 85 Maxima which didn't have a functioning water pump which easily survived being driven during a winter in my temperate Arkansas until my less wise and youthful self decided to look into it to realize the water pump belt was broken. Surprisingly it never overheated.....
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Air over the fan turns the fan and the pump, (even with a fan clutch) just don't sit idling for a long time, or shut it off, just keep moving or engine off. That's the reason I question the swap, if there is enough air flowing through the fan becomes a propeller driving the pump.
regards
mech