suew

suew

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Feel free to take this **** :D Just dont tell me to do a search or I will probably rip your head off

How do I get this black thing off. I have undone the bolts at the top but now its stuck between radiator hoses and the fan.

Thank you :D
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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?

Cheers
 
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.

Cheers
 
suew said:
I am going to change the viscous fan, well that was the plan :D
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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.
 
Its too late, I've already got it stuck, it wont go back either. I couldn't see what I was doing with it in the way. I have absolutely no idea what I am trying to achieve, so wanted to be able to see.
 
suew said:
@Turboman it has been off lots of times in the past. Just not by me :D
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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.
 
No, the black thing is stuck on the fan. So even it it had been possible to remove the fan with the black thing still in place, its too late now. Removing the hoses doesn't seem too difficult?????
 
suew said:
No, the black thing is stuck on the fan. So even it it had been possible to remove the fan with the black thing still in place, its too late now. Removing the hoses doesn't seem too difficult?????
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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.
 
Yes but cutting a hole wont solve this. It wont go back into place and its stuck on the fan.

And all this after I bought it a special spanner today, ungrateful thing.
 
suew said:
Yes but cutting a hole wont solve this. It wont go back into place and its stuck on the fan.

And all this after I bought it a special spanner today, ungrateful thing.
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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!
 
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.

Cheers.
 
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