Thanks for the post Scott...looks like the Sunday the 30th will be a good day. We'll be doing my MBRP 4" turbo back exhaust, flexalite electric fan kit, and fluidampr...was planning on injectors but doesn't look like I'll be able to round those up till beginning of next year..

I appreciate all the help ahead of time fellas...Barley pops for all! looks like a good crowd will be on hand to help out!

 

why the need for electric fans?

gotta love an electric fan kit that has a fail-safe that kicks the fan off if the motors get too hot.

 

I have one on my tranny cooler, it's nice to keep the air flowing when you arent driving

 

The electric fan is the flexalite kit for Diesel Ram '94 - 02 PN FLX-262. Since the product was created for the spcific application, why would the designers make something that could potentially harm the engine? In otherwords why would the fan kick off if the motor were hot? I know the kit is desgned for towing applications at or less than 18000 lbs combined vehicle and load weight, but didn't mention anything on the spec sheet about operating temps in relation to engine temps?? any thoughts?

I've used electric fans in each in-line 6 I've owned; they seem to be a good modification for freeing up some power and increasing the efficiency of the motor; overall they seem to be a popular upgrade. When I saw that Fexilite made a kit for my truck I thought it'd be a good upgrae...anyone have any experience with this kit or this sort of upgrade?

 

They'll be fine, they just don't flow as much air as the engine driven fan, thus the warning not to tow heavy. Don't tow heavy and you'll be fine. For what you have planned for your truck Sunir, no worries - they'll be fine. These trucks just need a ton of air if they start to get hot. Most of the time your fan never runs on your truck (clutch controlled), but when it does you'll know it. Tow on a hot summer day once, you'll hear it kick on!

 

Oh yea, I should be fine for this wrenchin' day. Lookin' forward to gettin the hands dirty again, it has been a while. Maybe Santa will bring me some goodies to install as well...hehehehe.

 

yeah that's what Summit Racing said also when I talked to their technical sales guy...they mentioned the towing heavy thing...the way I see it is that I can tow a 10K lbs load with the truck and still be under the 18K lbs combined limit speced by the flexilite fan kit; even with a racecar at 2.8K, that leaves me trailer weight of 7K lbs which is a good buffer for a single encolsed car trailer (say 28ft)...or if I stay with my current econotrailer (which is an 18ft open steel split deck) which only weighs like 1.8K that will make my load close to 5K lbs which is much less than the 10K safe allowable load I figured on.

 

well as i told sunir i will be there and PJ i'll bring my spring compressor!

 

Sounds like I may be out laying in the rocks doing it

Once it gets closer I'd like to hear a head count of people working on their trucks vs. people drinking (as I will be doing both).

I won't have my rims/tires until that next week it looks like. Wiggs's new adapters aren't fabbed up yet so he isn't ready to give up the ones with the old rims.....

Better off having the leveling kit done before hand though.

 

Looks like I'll be able to finally make one of these. I need to change my diff fluids, but it looks like there will be too much other stuff going on to mess with them.

 

have you made sure those big rims are gonna fit with the leveling kit?

i've never seen a truck with big rig wheels without at least a 4" lift

 

Well just ordered my injectors also don't know if we'll have time to do those as well...got a matched and tested to 35 psi tolerences set of RV275's from Industrial injection...got them to match MWFI's price of $300 for the set.

these are a good value injector for the price, 40hp gain and good for 2mpg on the fuel economy side of things.

So now I guess the to do list grows: ...Exhaust, Fluidampr, flexalite fan kit, and injectors (hopefully if we can)

 

Awww man, I thought I had seen them even WITHOUT a leveling kit.

You are scaring me now.....

<off to research this>

 

Depends,..... I think he'll have two bays open.

 

Nah, I'm good. There is at least 4 people here running the same rims without a lift.