DIY Electrical fan conversion

[kowalski]

Please do not ask questions in here. lets keep this clean and tidy, if you have any questions or additions, PM me and i will just edit them in.

Materials:
• 14 inch fan
• (optional) adjustable temp switch, with its own thermostat
• a couple of crimp connectors the wire to wire ones (they look kind of like >===<)
• 7 feet of + wire
• 5 feet of – wire
• 2 crimp connectors for attaching to ground and power block
• 2 female crimp connectors to attach to temp switch
• a bag of zip ties
• if your using a used fan, get a fan mounting kit
• electrical tape
• Shrink Tube (optional)
• A couple feet of plastic tubing you put wires into to make it look tidy

[kowalski]

Tools:
• 13 mm socket
• 10 mm open end wrench
• Good set of crimping pliers (you will regret it if you don’t use good crimpers), and good strippers, or you can use your teeth.
• Philips bit, and drill
• Flat screw driver for hose clamp.
• Pliers to pull out the tabs that hold in the radiator
• If your using shrink tube, a heat gun
• 7/64 allen key
• Cutters
• Sharpie
• Philips screw driver

[kowalski]

Note:
• PM me if you have any questions about the instructions.

Procedure:
1. Remove air box (2 10 mm bolts, the hose clamp holding on the air boot, and the electrical connector.)
2. Pull out the pins that hold the fan shroud in.
3. Remove the 4 13mm bolts that hold the fan onto the fan clutch.
4. Remove the fan and the fan shroud together.
5. Place fan in desired location, and mark the 4 mounting points with a sharpie
6. Remove the 2 13mm retaining bolts that hold the radiator in.
7. Take your 7/64 Allen key, and VERY carefully bend the fins so that the plastic mounting screws are able to slide through the radiator. (you do this on the marks you made with the sharpie.) Make sure the allen key is able to slide all the way through the radiator, it is a good idea to have the radiator bent slightly forward so that you can see when the allen key has gone through the radiator. (a couple of fins will break, just don’t be aggressive and it wont leak after)

[kowalski]

8. Go grab a beer, as you have just completed the most complicated step.
9. It is time to mount your fan, open your fan mounting kit, and pop the long plastic bolts through the holes your just made, and finger tighten the plastic washer type nut onto the other side. If it did not supply you with a washer type nut, you will want to have a plastic washer in between the radiator and the nut so you don’t cause a leak.
10. Take your cutters, and trim off the end of the plastic bolts, leaving at least an 1/8th of an inch.
11. Pat yourself on the back, your fan is mounted
12. If you are going to mount your temp control unit where I did, which I suggest you do. Then you are going to need to do this before you put your radiator back in place.
13. Take your mounting braket, and place it in the desired location. Mark the 2 spots with your sharpie.
14. Take the drill and drill the 2 screws into the dotted spots, and then take them out.
15. Mount your temp control unit onto the braket, and screw it in place with the screw driver
16. Put the radiator back in place, and put the 2 13mm retaining screws, and cap back on.
17. Remove the hose clamp on the upper left radiator hose.
18. Remove the upper radiator hose on the left, and drop your thermostat in.
19. Put the host back on, and tighten the hose clamp
20. coil up your extra line electrical tape it up, and zip tie it to the mounting braket for the temp control unit
21. Remove front grills, Kidney’s, and the headlight covers (the plastic covers in the engine bay that cover up the headlights) 2 philips scres on each grill, 3 metal tabs on the top of each grill. 2 metal tabs on top of the kindey’s and it should pull out.
22. Run your positive wire from your power block, (battery for you cabbie owners) and then run it down the passenger side, up to the headlight, feed it towards where the grills would be. There is wires running just below the metal ridge, feel around for it and use their retaining clips to hold the wire in place. Run it along and feed it through on driver side of the light assembly. Connect to + post on your temp control unit. You can use your plastic tidy tube to hide the wire.
23. Run your + wire from your fan down and zip tie it to a clip on your radiator, and make it run under the lower hose, and hide it as best you can. Bring it up and into the headlight assembly area and feed it up to your other post on the temp control unit.
24. Follow the + wire off the fan up into the headlight assembly area, and run it down the drivers side back to the hood mount. Undo the 10mm bolt there, and put a connector on, and put the bolt back in. use your black plastic tidy tube, and put the wire in it.
25. Tape up exposed connections, if you have shrink tube, then use that. Use a couple zip ties to make sure all the wires are secure.
26. Put headlight covers back on, grills and kidney’s back on.
27. If you lost any anti freeze, top it up
28. Start car, test your fan, and set the temp for when it comes on.

[e30Rooster]

old thread bump, because I can.