Engine and engine cooling: cooling system: fan (Household)
Vehicle equipment recall 84E-006. NHTSA received HOUSEHOLD’s report on Mar 15, 1984.
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The short answer
NHTSA received HOUSEHOLD’s report on Mar 15, 1984. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
The notice gives no hazard in a field of its own.
BLADE BENDING STRESSES ARE HIGHER THAN EXPECTED.
INCREASED BLADE BENDING STRESSES ARE A RESULT OF RESONANT VIBRATION AT CERTAIN ENGINE SPEEDS.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Engine and engine cooling: cooling system: fan.
What should you do?
ALL FANS WILL BE REPLACED BY MANUFACTURER.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: VEHICLE CATEGORY: HEAVY TRUCKS; FORD, INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER AND VOLVO WHITEMODELS EQUIPPED WITH CATERPILLAR 3208 OR DETROIT DIESEL 8.2 LITER ENGINESERIES.SYSTEM: ENGINE COOLING; FAN ASSEMBLY (DUROCOOL) 91704; REPLACEMENT PART.CONSEQUENCES OF DEFECT: A FATIGUE CRACK IN THE BLADES MAY OCCUR AND PORTIONS OFBLADES MAY SEPARATE FROM THE FAN WITHOUT WARNING. RISK OF DAMAGE TO ENGINECOMPARTMENT AND PERSONAL INJURY COULD RESULT.
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 217 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Household HouseholdBuilt from Mar 1, 1981 to Feb 1, 1984
Who is recalling it?
- Made by HOUSEHOLD.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
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