E-Fan Mod

[msavides]

I must have missed this thread.

 

Here is my efan mod.

 

Gave me tons of room. I ran it with one fan for a while and it was just a hair under what was needed during a hot day wheeling, So Both are hooked up for good now.

 

Fans are off of a 1987 Nissan Maxima, Fan controller is a Centech and uses the stock temp sender for input. Fan shroud covers the entire radiator and mounts to the side of the stock radiator (My radiator was not stock so some modification was necessary) just like the stock shroud if you have a body lift, If you do not have a body lift the lower frame of the fan support hits the steering box, however it can be easily modified. I still have to weld some tabs for the top two mounting holes for the shroud but they should not be necessary. These fans are cheap ant any wreaking yard, I paid 14 bucks for this one. the fan controller was 80 bucks.

 

 

 

Edited June 10, 2008 by msavides

[RedPath88]

Little update, the Flex-a-lite thermostatic controller died on me Friday afternoon. Dropped of the company vehicle and as I started my truck a coworker came over and we ended up talking for 20 or so minutes.

 

All was fine, but when I got in to go I noticed the temp gauge was higher than normal, actually a lot higher than normal! Just as I shut it off the steam started to roll out from the overflow bottle.

 

Tracked it down to a bad connector, or so I thought anyway... replaced that and the fan kicked on as it should, but I only made it about a mile before I noticed the temp climbing again.

 

Pulled over at a gas station and took another look, figured out that the controller was not working. So I pulled the leads off of it and pinched them together, wrapped it with some electrical tape to insulate the hot leads and drove to the parts store.

 

They had the exact same product, under another name and about half the price!

 

*the dead one*

 

Replaced it and off I went

 

One thing I was always unsure about was the lack of a relay in this design, the non-adjustable controllers all use a relay (like the one installed in my yota), while this one did not. even the new one does not use a relay. Well one evening this week or this coming weekend a relay is being installed whether the manufacturer likes it or not! I am not going to have another one go out early again... this one was only 8 months old!

[MY1PATH]

I think the temp controller that came with my FAL BlackMagicExtreme has a relay built into it. but it also has circuts for A/C control, manual on/off and so on....

[RedPath88]

yeah I thought maybe it had one built into it, or that they at lease built it to handle the current draw of a fan, but I am not going to take the chance on the second one... relays are cheaper