Started my electric fan install today and doing a rad flush at the same time since I pulled the rad to install the fan. Made good progress. All old parts removed, fan mounted to rad and rad reinstalled. Rad flushed out and ready for new coolant. Rad definitely needed to be cleaned out. The drain barely worked when I was trying to empty it the first time. I ended up pulling the entire drain plug out because I was getting impatient and made a huge mess. But got her done. I could have sworn I ordered a 180* thermostat but the one I have says 195* on it, hopefully this will be ok. Complete with jiggle pin but my thermostat sits flat so im just going to install it the same direction as the old one, jiggle pin towards driver side.
Picked up some 1/8" x 1" flat aluminum stock and ended up using it to mount the fan controller and the fan. Mounted the fan controller using the bolt for the washer fluid tank. Nice little spot for it there by the fuse box, close to battery and the fan. Used 4 pieces of the aluminum to mount the fan to the rad using the bolts for the old shroud. The trickiest part was actually getting everything off the motor. I had to unbolt the shroud then unbolt the fan from the bearing then the whole unit lifted out. Then it was easy to get the rad out and I was able to just sneak the rad back in with the fan installed on it. I also removed the entire bearing assembly from the motor and used the shorter belt to run only the alternator, this also creates alot of extra space. Its tight squeezing the rad and fan in as one unit but once its in place and bolted up there is lots of clearance all around. Also managed to install the temp probe AFTER I had reinstalled the rad because I forgot, lol somehow found some space.
Tomorrow I put the new coolant and thermostat in and completely wire the fan. Taken a few pictures on the way Ill post them up tomorrow also.
Picked up some 1/8" x 1" flat aluminum stock and ended up using it to mount the fan controller and the fan. Mounted the fan controller using the bolt for the washer fluid tank. Nice little spot for it there by the fuse box, close to battery and the fan. Used 4 pieces of the aluminum to mount the fan to the rad using the bolts for the old shroud. The trickiest part was actually getting everything off the motor. I had to unbolt the shroud then unbolt the fan from the bearing then the whole unit lifted out. Then it was easy to get the rad out and I was able to just sneak the rad back in with the fan installed on it. I also removed the entire bearing assembly from the motor and used the shorter belt to run only the alternator, this also creates alot of extra space. Its tight squeezing the rad and fan in as one unit but once its in place and bolted up there is lots of clearance all around. Also managed to install the temp probe AFTER I had reinstalled the rad because I forgot, lol somehow found some space.
Tomorrow I put the new coolant and thermostat in and completely wire the fan. Taken a few pictures on the way Ill post them up tomorrow also.