Recently bought a 129 SL500 (95) with full history (mostly MB) and in extremely good order throughout. I've since had it fully serviced and had a new clock spring fitted (as the horn didn't work - or the airbag
) and generally given it a good clean/valet and general spruce up.
Anyway, the one thing it's always done since I've had it is get slightly warm when climbing hills at slowish speeds (up to say 90 - 95 degrees). I've changed the thermostat and flushed the coolant which was beautifully clean to begin with and used some of these "patent" snake oil muck dissolvers through the cooling system.
Today, had another go at flushing the system as I was concerned (and I do like to worry!) that I'd left some of the Wynns rad flush in the system and really wanted it out.
So I was blipping the throttle with the bonnet open to get some flow/get air from the rad and noticed that the fan didn't seem to get any faster or make nice "whooshing" noises as the engine sped up. So, feeling brave I stick my finger (tentatively) into the spinning blades and they just stopped!
When I let them go, they very gently went back to speed but they are really easy to stop.
Do you think this could be the problem?
) and generally given it a good clean/valet and general spruce up.Anyway, the one thing it's always done since I've had it is get slightly warm when climbing hills at slowish speeds (up to say 90 - 95 degrees). I've changed the thermostat and flushed the coolant which was beautifully clean to begin with and used some of these "patent" snake oil muck dissolvers through the cooling system.
Today, had another go at flushing the system as I was concerned (and I do like to worry!) that I'd left some of the Wynns rad flush in the system and really wanted it out.
So I was blipping the throttle with the bonnet open to get some flow/get air from the rad and noticed that the fan didn't seem to get any faster or make nice "whooshing" noises as the engine sped up. So, feeling brave I stick my finger (tentatively) into the spinning blades and they just stopped!
When I let them go, they very gently went back to speed but they are really easy to stop.
Do you think this could be the problem?
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