silvercruiser
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I hope this all works out for you Steve. good write up
Joe
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I di just that and had constant overheating problems, replaced viscous fan, problems solvedsae70 said:Has anyone considered complete removal of the viscous fan & fitting a Spal/Kenlow electric fan conversion Should give better control & more defined cooling with eledged improved MPG Got me thinking now as you should be able to bring a lecy fan conversion in for around the £150 mark and you could even build in redundancy & stepped cooling by using twin fans
And this is what I stumbled over with regards to Kenlowe fans when I did the conversion on my ZukCossack said:I di just that and had constant overheating problems, replaced viscous fan, problems solvedsae70 said:Has anyone considered complete removal of the viscous fan & fitting a Spal/Kenlow electric fan conversion Should give better control & more defined cooling with eledged improved MPG Got me thinking now as you should be able to bring a lecy fan conversion in for around the £150 mark and you could even build in redundancy & stepped cooling by using twin fans
But if anyone wants to give it a go they can come and collect my old Kenlowe from Morden, end of the Northern Line.
sae70 said:Decided to remove the factory standard fitted viscous fan and fan cowl from Shaky and fit an electric fan that can be isolated when wadding
After much trawling of the net and reading about other peoples findings with respect to different electric fan manufacturers I have chosen to go with a Spal electric fan as I could only find positive comments written about them even by the LR boys and could not find any negative comments Where as it was easy to find negative comments that people had written about the other two well known electric fan manufacturers
So decision made I contacted Fereday cars and spoke to a chap called Allen who was extremely helpful and mailed me all kinds of spec/performance detail and dimension drawings
After much chat about what I required from my electric fan the one that he recommended for Shaky was a 12" straight blade suction fan part# VA10-AP9/C-25A 305mm/52mm/12V/suction) and the more robust mechano style fan mounting kit part# 4 x 3013.0011.
The decision to go for the 12" fan was simply because it is the largest one that would comfortably fit the back of the radiator, suction as it would fit between the radiator and the engine and so be less exposed to the extremes of off road compared to a blower fan mounted on the front of the radiator, straight blade because although the curved blade fans are more efficient they are more delicate and prone to going out of balance when covered in dried mud and breaking a blade and the mechano style fan fixing kit simply because it provided a far stronger fixing and so better for the off road environment all of this advice given by Allen of Fereday Cars who has been using and supplying the Spal fan range for some 20 years
Interesting So maybe a smaller lecy fan with the cowl still fitted would have been betterCossack said:I put an electric fan in so it could be switched off if wading or muddy. The trouble with the Kenlowe I had was that it wouldn't fit in with the cowl in place, so it only dragged air through the rad over the diameter of the fan, IIRC it was 16" but with the cowl fitted the viscous fan would drag air from all over the rads area, obviously greater cooling power.
A smaller fan may have been better but I think it would need to be the same diameter as the 'hole' at the rear of the cowl, I couldn't fit one in front because the engine rad, air-con and intercooler left no room.sae70 said:Interesting So maybe a smaller lecy fan with the cowl still fitted would have been betterCossack said:I put an electric fan in so it could be switched off if wading or muddy. The trouble with the Kenlowe I had was that it wouldn't fit in with the cowl in place, so it only dragged air through the rad over the diameter of the fan, IIRC it was 16" but with the cowl fitted the viscous fan would drag air from all over the rads area, obviously greater cooling power.
edit - of course the other option would be to keep the viscous fan give it a service & fit a small push lecy fan on the front of the Rads just on a switch for when the going gets tough & slow
AndyCook said:that sounds like good news
I am glad i topped up fluid level in fan clutch on my vehicle before spain, as i didnt used to hear the fan before then
but on mountain climbs in spain it was engaging a lot of the time