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madmover

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Hi,

Is there a common rad conversion to incorporate an electric fan? want to be able to turn it off when wading to stop throwing water everywhere, plus the current fan is missing a blade. It seems a natural time to upgrade. Before I start making one from ebay parts, i figured i'd ask and see if there's a common solution i've missed?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
 
madmover said:
Hi,

Is there a common rad conversion to incorporate an electric fan? want to be able to turn it off when wading to stop throwing water everywhere, plus the current fan is missing a blade. It seems a natural time to upgrade. Before I start making one from ebay parts, i figured i'd ask and see if there's a common solution i've missed?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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There is not an off the shelf kit I am aware of specifi for a land rover, Kenlow or similar for generic electric fan conversion kits but it is up to you, you can easily make your own.
I have a twin fan unit from an air-conditioned mondeo which I have wired in, using relays, to an override switch and a temp selector switch fed with one of the thermostat switches from xeng (link). This allows me to isolate it and override it, or have have it automatically switch on at either high or low temps fed by the thermostatic switch.
 
dag019 said:
I stand corrected regarding specific kits, but those prices are horrific! All in mine as about £40!
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that's because they are very well thought through kits, are supplied with every last nut, bolt, 'stat, don't use cable ties to pass through the radiator as fixing points and are proven to be very reliable. Have used on a good number of cars over the years and they never fail
 
Hmm, iv'e just fitted a new 300tdi rad pack and looking at your link v8250 i might just splash the cash for the single.
Not that they need much cooling other than towing on a very hot day...
 
v8250 said:
that's because they are very well thought through kits, are supplied with every last nut, bolt, 'stat, don't use cable ties to pass through the radiator as fixing points and are proven to be very reliable. Have used on a good number of cars over the years and they never fail
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Mine is not held on with cable ties! The mondeo twin fan unit is large enough to bolt to the external rad frame using some stainless brackets I made up for the purpose! the reason I went this route rather than buy one of the off the shelf kits available at the time (kenlow etc) was because I did not want it cable tied to the rad core.
 
dag019 said:
Mine is not held on with cable ties! The mondeo twin fan unit is large enough to bolt to the external rad frame using some stainless brackets I made up for the purpose! the reason I went this route rather than buy one of the off the shelf kits available at the time (kenlow etc) was because I did not want it cable tied to the rad core.
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Mine is also not tie wrapped. Mine is the 200tdi one with the metal from that bolts onto the rad packs surround.
 
I put two brackets across the back of mine bolted in through the inside of the wings, they hold a Rangie twin fan set up, I think they were assistor fans from the aircon or something, they work a treat.
 
Best thing would be a fan that fits closely into the original shroud. That way it pulls air across the whole radiator rather than just a small area as most electric conversions do. A disco fan shroud is slightly shallower if you need more space.
 
FlyingPete said:
Best thing would be a fan that fits closely into the original shroud. That way it pulls air across the whole radiator rather than just a small area as most electric conversions do. A disco fan shroud is slightly shallower if you need more space.
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I had an old VW Polo fan on my shroud, it has three legs that fixed it in, there wasn't a lot of room behind it, a decent size electric fan will do the job but if you can fit twin fans then all the better. I removed the Polo fan and shroud to fit a twin fan set up.
 
dag019 said:
I have a twin fan unit from an air-conditioned mondeo which I have wired in, using relays, to an override switch and a temp selector switch fed with one of the thermostat switches from xeng (link). This allows me to isolate it and override it, or have have it automatically switch on at either high or low temps fed by the thermostatic switch.
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If you have twin fans and two temperature inputs, with the right relay circuit you can have them come on at low speed (wired in series) and high speed (parallel) depending on the temperature.
 
v8250 said:
that's because they are very well thought through kits, are supplied with every last nut, bolt, 'stat, don't use cable ties to pass through the radiator as fixing points and are proven to be very reliable. Have used on a good number of cars over the years and they never fail
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Still a lot of money for something very simple though.
 
madmover said:
Hi,

Is there a common rad conversion to incorporate an electric fan? want to be able to turn it off when wading to stop throwing water everywhere, plus the current fan is missing a blade. It seems a natural time to upgrade. Before I start making one from ebay parts, i figured i'd ask and see if there's a common solution i've missed?
Thanks in advance,
Andy
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Stick with the vicous, it just works tbh. And does it really matter if it splashes up some water? In theory if you are moving with a bow wave, there should be very little water as high as the fan anyway. The viscous units seemed fine for the Army too.

BTW - you don't need to change the rad to use an electric fan :rolleyes:
 
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