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neilly
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Hi SueW.
I normally pull the hoses off as well. As well as the fan.
Why are you trying to remove it?
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I normally pull the hoses off as well. As well as the fan.
Why are you trying to remove it?
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Well ,
If it is like mine,
No need to remove the cover, just undo the fan and remove. Mine will squeeze out btw the cowl and the front of the engine.
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If it is like mine,
No need to remove the cover, just undo the fan and remove. Mine will squeeze out btw the cowl and the front of the engine.
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I am going to change the viscous fan, well that was the plan
Quite tricky to remove the cowl on a Tdi, the earlier Ninety ones are two piece. I drill out the rivets and replace with stainless bolts, makes it easy next time.
If yours is the one piece cowl, you could cut a window in it, using an elecrtric drill, and join the dots with a hacksaw blade or pad saw, and use the viscous fan spanner through the window.
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Hold on tho. my cowl does look shorter than yours.......
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Like I said, Ninety and Tdi cowls are different.
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@Turboman it has been off lots of times in the past. Just not by me
So you have removed the fan?
Try and remove it and get it out of the gap you show in your pic, use the special cranked viscous fan tool, only a few quid.
If you cant get it out, drain coolant and remove rad hose, then refill.
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Not very once coolant is drained, just jubilee clips. Like I said^^^^^^^^^^, some cut a window in the cowl to remove the fan with the special spanner. James will have a suggestion, if he is around.
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It will. Because you can remove the fan using the spanner through the hole, and then slip the fan out in front of the cowl!
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If it got there, it must be able to move back into the position it came from.............
It might be time to go and have a cup of tea, if you come back in 10 minutes it may magically slip into place.
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It might be time to go and have a cup of tea, if you come back in 10 minutes it may magically slip into place.
Cheers.
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