Marq, Mel's truck is a bit unusual in that he has no A/C and that's a factory setup, the radiators of these trucks are a bit wider that those of the A/C equipped. My buddy Jake (Fast Burn here) has an '86s that is teh same way, I never measured the differences, but his radiator is significantly wider than mine, don't think tis any lower tho, which means the brat probably lucked out with a larger than mine radiator from teh factiory. In any case, Mel's layout of the dual electric fans may not work out quite the same way for your truck if you got A/C. Also, I'd recommend using not the 3.8 Taurus fans, but two off a Lincoln Mark VIII, (you'll need two donor cars, obviously), as those monsters can pull 4800cfm each on the high setting - if that don't cool your truck, dunno what will, lol
All that said - I just locked my fan to the water pump, didn't pin the clutch, but instead made some brackets from 1/16" plate steel, I have them running from the water pump bolts to 4 of the 6 blades-to-clutch bolts. I initially tried that setup with only two brackets and they were aluminum, fan ripped them right out upon startup. What I have now is very very sturdy and solid, but just to be on the safe side I'm adding one more bracket next week when our shop is open, I'd actually add two and utilize all six bolts on the fan, but one of them is stripped so I can only rely on 5 to transfer torque from the water pump to the fan. So far I'm very pleased, we were at 80 degrees and very high humidity today and I left the truck idle for quite a while and it stayed nice and cool. Will test it in rush hour traffic soon enough, should be good tho, as my clutch was way too loose to begin with.