Radiator fan

[frosty]

As anyone took the radiator fan off and fitted a electric one? just wondering if I could do that would it make it a little more economical. Cos my car fan very rarely kicks in, so the way i see it it's cooling a cold engine.

 

[geoffdown]

As anyone took the radiator fan off and fitted a electric one? just wondering if I could do that would it make it a little more economical. Cos my car fan very rarely kicks in, so the way i see it it's cooling a cold engine.

for winter i have just taken fan off as the engine is over cooled anyway in spring i am fitting a electric fan there is a download for it on here:thumbs

 

[solarman216]

yes simple to do other than you need to have the fan running at a very low speed via a resistor, and kick in when another sensor says the engine is getting a little hot, when I first fitted mine I omitted the resistor so found that even in cool times the fan would kick in with a loud roar for a couple of mins every so often, found it better to have a small air flow constantly (which is what a viscous fan does anyway) and now the full fan almost never comes on, Rick

 

[solarman216]

yes simple to do other than you need to have the fan running at a very low speed via a resistor, and kick in when another sensor says the engine is getting a little hot, when I first fitted mine I omitted the resistor so found that even in cool times the fan would kick in with a loud roar for a couple of mins every so often, found it better to have a small air flow constantly (which is what a viscous fan does anyway) and now the full fan almost never comes on, bye the way with no fan at all you run the risk of overheating if stuck in heavy traffic for a long time, Rick

 

[96terrano]

I've got a twin electric as well as the viscous, go into my YouTube link in my signature, there's vids of it in their somwere. :thumb2