mhuppertz

My electric fan wires rubbed on my pulley and fried last night. I was looking at it today and realized that the radiator is tilted a whole lot toward the engine to keep it perpendicular to the engine for the mechanical fan. Since I don't have one of those any more, I decided to tip it back toward the front to be parallel with the intercooler and condenser. Following are the steps (which are reversible at any time):





These first two pictures show the tilt amount from the factory.


The mounting bracket hits part of the radiator support:





So I trimmed it with a saws all.




The rubber isolators must be trimmed to clear the radiator support. Just trim enough to make a snug fit that won't allow the radiator to bang into the support.






Just measure the new hole locations and drill them. Also trim the brackets to clear the chrome grill trim. The following show the new location and the increased space. Not I can fit my dual fan setup in there!

CONFEDERATESON

nice job! it's amazing what a little studying will do to figure out a way to improve something. but i have a question...what is that fan off of and how well does it work? i see your from new mexico and imagine it gets pretty hot down there!

Onemoparnut

I had to do the same thing when I put my electric fan on. Later I removed the fan bracket and put a short belt on.

mhuppertz

It's just a cheapie Hayden Swirl Cool from PepGirls. Cools just fine!

ppiggppenn

That sure gives you a nice bit of room between rad and engine, ... my elec fan is off a parted SAAB and is thinner and smaller than yours and still doesn't have that much clearance. Nice job!, .... now I gotta run out and see if my rad is tilted too!

mhuppertz

Is this sticky material?

CONFEDERATESON

i vote sticky! this is good info some people may need if they go eletric

lenuelmp23

I vote sticky

mhuppertz

I'm persona non-grata on this site, so I won't make sticky! Never made TOM either...
Waaaaaa!

thrub

That looks like the same fan I put on my truck. When it was hot out and pulling a loaded 16 foot stock trailer it just barely kept up. I attached my fan with the ties that came with the fan that go through the rad. After about 5 or 6 months they wore a hole in my rad.

mhuppertz

Update, this mod has given me enough room to run bigger motored fans. I have some Chrysler fans with the tall motors (not pancake) and I can get them in there, but the fan housings are all broken. Going to the bone yard tomorrow to look for a Tarus fan set!

wannadiesel

I put things that are solutions to common problems in the sticky, it's kind of an FAQ section. I like what you did and it's a great solution, but not a lot of people are putting electric fans on their truck.

It's got nothing to do with your stinky feet.