Range EFI V8 - 1991 - Viscous fan nut direction

roule

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• Sep 3, 2023

• #1

HI everyone

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Before insisting like crazy and doing something stupid, I would like to have an informed opinion on the direction of loosening the 32 mm fan nut.
I read everything and its opposite: no screws on the left, on the right, unscrew in the direction of rotation of the fan, in the opposite direction...
Well I tried in both directions with a spanner + mass, and by blocking the belts, it doesn't move! with air conditioning
It's a 1991 V8 with A/C and V-belts.

 

brianp38dse

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• Sep 3, 2023

• #2

I dont know the classic but looking at the fan which turns clockwise i would say undo that way, big spanner and a sharp clout with a hammer.

 

Datatek

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• Sep 3, 2023

• #3

Always the direction in which the fan rotates.

 

roule

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• Sep 3, 2023

• #4

Datatek said:

Toujours le sens dans lequel le ventilateur tourne.

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so it's tightened to torque ...

 

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Ratae

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• Sep 4, 2023

• #5

Undoes clockwise for V belt V8 and anti-clockwise for serpentine belt V8.
Usually needs a good whack on the spanner to shock it loose.