R1cho
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O.k so the problem started with my viscous coupling breaking a few months back, not a problem i just took the fan off and it ran fine and dandy until the other day when i noticed a scraping sound, the coupling had worn and was now catching on the bolts on the water pump, after inspection i was going to angle grind it off but instead chose to do something else, i unbolted the coupling and it split into two halves, so heres what i did
i took the front half and cleaned out all the old viscous fluid
then made up a plate for it
with the the plan was to bolt through the rear half of the viscous through the plate into the front half there by holding the coupling in place.
however this left a bid gap between the front and rear half of the viscouse and also created a wobble because it wasn't centred enough, so back to the drawing board.
I then decided to cut the plate down to fit in where the viscous fluid used to live.
this way the front and rear half of the coupling fit together nicely again and held in place where they were supposed to be.
now i knew they fit together nicely i had to remove the front half again and put it back with the fan in place as there was no room to put the fan back on without removing the rad (something i didn't want to do as mine is an auto so has the oil cooler in the bottom of the rad aswell)
the next job was tighten up the bolts on the back of the viscous to pull it all into place and make sure it was all centred after this came a very fiddly bit, bolting the fan back on it was slow to do but i managed to do it with a small ratchet and 10mm socket.
it was slow to do and fiddly but I didn't have to remove the rad and my fan is now fixed in place nice and solid it's no longer a viscous but after a 20 mile drive mainly uphills it kept my engine nice and cool just under halfway on the thermo, as i said fiddly but didn't have to remove the rad, didn't have to mess around replacing a pump that didn't need replaceing and no electric fan to mess around with, all in all not a bad job even if i say so myself lol
:clap
i took the front half and cleaned out all the old viscous fluid
then made up a plate for it
with the the plan was to bolt through the rear half of the viscous through the plate into the front half there by holding the coupling in place.
however this left a bid gap between the front and rear half of the viscouse and also created a wobble because it wasn't centred enough, so back to the drawing board.
I then decided to cut the plate down to fit in where the viscous fluid used to live.
this way the front and rear half of the coupling fit together nicely again and held in place where they were supposed to be.
now i knew they fit together nicely i had to remove the front half again and put it back with the fan in place as there was no room to put the fan back on without removing the rad (something i didn't want to do as mine is an auto so has the oil cooler in the bottom of the rad aswell)
the next job was tighten up the bolts on the back of the viscous to pull it all into place and make sure it was all centred after this came a very fiddly bit, bolting the fan back on it was slow to do but i managed to do it with a small ratchet and 10mm socket.
it was slow to do and fiddly but I didn't have to remove the rad and my fan is now fixed in place nice and solid it's no longer a viscous but after a 20 mile drive mainly uphills it kept my engine nice and cool just under halfway on the thermo, as i said fiddly but didn't have to remove the rad, didn't have to mess around replacing a pump that didn't need replaceing and no electric fan to mess around with, all in all not a bad job even if i say so myself lol
:clap
