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johnny what's the measurements on the fans...... I need to upgrade my fans as one of them quit working.
 
johnny what's the measurements on the fans...... I need to upgrade my fans as one of them quit working.

Exactly the same size as the core of the 60 / 62 radiator?

Short answer is that I have no clue. I can measure it up later tonight when I get home if you'd like.
 
Exactly the same size as the core of the 60 / 62 radiator?

Short answer is that I have no clue. I can measure it up later tonight when I get home if you'd like.

sure would
 
johnny what's the measurements on the fans...... I need to upgrade my fans as one of them quit working.

Shroud, minus tabs, measures 24 1/2" by 17 7/8"
 
yours was the stock 60 series rad .. isn't it .?

Stock 62 radiator is what I'm fitting up with. Only difference AFAIK is the presence of the transmission cooler.
 
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The project will be slowed down by the addition of a new puppy to my family. May I introduce Leucas :D

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Even though I had work and got to play with Leucas all day, I still got some work done on my new fan install.

First thing first. The new plugs I ordered from RockAuto work well!! After finding this out, I took the fan out to my truck, connected the fan up to the battery and found that the green wire with white trace is positive.

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I then mounted the fan controller and fuse to the shroud using a couple of stainless panhead screws, painted black, with speed nuts on the back side. I looked around for epoxy to glue the speed nuts to the shroud so I could remove the controller without removing the shroud from the truck, but couldn't find it. I was able to get a bunch of pressure on the screws with the speed nuts so I'm not too worried about them coming loose. I guess the controller won't be coming off anytime soon :D

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Soldered in extensions to the motor pigtails so I could attach everything to the fan controller.

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A couple of hours later, I have myself a complete harness, 100% soldered and wrapped. Used zip ties along the route to keep the wires where they should be. I think it came out pretty good!

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Tomorrow will hopefully allow me to fabricate the mounts and these fans mounted to my new radiator!
 
nice toe nails johnny :eek:....:D

Good looking pup... Looks like a bundle of energy...

:cheers:

Seriously.

Dogs are dogs.

Let's see more of the toenails...
 
:lol: Thanks Chris! Drew, Onur and Al, you're all ridiculous, lol. I try to keep it mostly tech with only one non-tech picture and you all focus on my girlfriend's lower extremities. I don't suppose I can blame you though :grinpimp:
 
Looks good Johnny! Btw the pigtails I ordered from the link above are a perfect fit as well and are colored coded just as yours are. Hope this help saves a few $ for others in the future.

Clint
 
Looks good Johnny! Btw the pigtails I ordered from the link above are a perfect fit as well and are colored coded just as yours are. Hope this help saves a few $ for others in the future.

Clint

Damn, :lol: Thanks for confirming that Clint. I'll edit my other posts with this info.
 
Not a problem. Prolly a bit premature but is this going to be done for the 25th Rubithon?

Clint

That is a good question my friend. At this point, I have absolutely no clue. I'll know in about 9 months.
 
Got a bunch done today. I was able to get the fan mounted to my new radiator with brackets that I am truly happy with.

Started by cutting the tube to rough length and put holes in for the radiator captive nuts:

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Marked where the shroud bolts needed to go and drilled holes as low as they could go to keep the shroud as close to the radiator as possible:

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Cut some angles in the tube for aesthetics, then gave it a shot of paint. Used some adhesive foam between the shroud and the brackets to help seal up the irregular edge of the shroud:

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I then made a plate to fit in the hatch, to hold one of my flood lights as well as my dual channel PWM:

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Gave the parts a shot of paint and now I've got to figure out how to fish the wire pair up into the hatch! Any tips would be much appreciated :D

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I hope to have some time this week to get the radiator installed, and hopefully, the light, so I can use both this coming weekend.
 

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