Monty88
New Member
Got a nice christmas present from my one ten a day early, in the shape of the axle holding on the fan/viscous coupling to the water pump snapping and causing a fan blade to snap itself off on the radiator. Puncturing it.
As tempted I am to fill the thing full of rad seal, bolt on a new water pump which I've bought and tell it a fan is a luxury, I'm thinking it's just putting off the problem, and while I'm going to have to get a new radiator I might as well go the whole hog with this old fan business.
Here's where I stop rambling and delve into the landyzone seers' knowledge.
I need a new visous coupling and fan, I looked at getting an electric, and unless people think to say otherwise, the installation of electrickery sounds quite difficult, foreign and distinctly like cheating.
So I'd like to bolt on a new viscous, get a new fan, and throw in a new radiator for the 110's 20th birthday next week.
I'm having trouble finding a new unit, new, they're rare to find and quite expensive. The questions are, does anyone have one they want to let go of, perhaps having installed an electric fan and done away with it? Does anyone know where I can get every part from the end of the water pump to the tip of the viscous from, without matching 3rd world debt? Or, at a push, if any fan units from other models/years would fit my 2.5td? Other models' seem easier to come by (or are they just grass on the other side).
Cheers guys, wishing you all a New Year of no problems we can't fix (well that's why we love them?)
Monty
As tempted I am to fill the thing full of rad seal, bolt on a new water pump which I've bought and tell it a fan is a luxury, I'm thinking it's just putting off the problem, and while I'm going to have to get a new radiator I might as well go the whole hog with this old fan business.
Here's where I stop rambling and delve into the landyzone seers' knowledge.
I need a new visous coupling and fan, I looked at getting an electric, and unless people think to say otherwise, the installation of electrickery sounds quite difficult, foreign and distinctly like cheating.
So I'd like to bolt on a new viscous, get a new fan, and throw in a new radiator for the 110's 20th birthday next week.
I'm having trouble finding a new unit, new, they're rare to find and quite expensive. The questions are, does anyone have one they want to let go of, perhaps having installed an electric fan and done away with it? Does anyone know where I can get every part from the end of the water pump to the tip of the viscous from, without matching 3rd world debt? Or, at a push, if any fan units from other models/years would fit my 2.5td? Other models' seem easier to come by (or are they just grass on the other side).
Cheers guys, wishing you all a New Year of no problems we can't fix (well that's why we love them?)
Monty