What if you put a couple of electric pusher fans in front of the radiator and keep the stock fan This would keep the fan clutch from locking until its really needed. Might save fuel, belt wear, and fan clutches.
The whole problem is the stock fan will never engage, it's broken. What I didn't like was a lot of people on here were forking out $140 for a new clutch, and it would only work for a year or so and they were back to square one with a non-working fan. And when they did work, they waited till 230 degrees before they kicked in, which I have heard is the factory design, but that's waiting till the last minute in my opinion before any real cooling starts.
I rarely see over 205 degrees without any fan at all. With a working fan clutch the temp would drop to about 185 at idle fairly quickly. Theres probably another problem somewhere.
your killing a lot of power by running a fan locked up all the time.there's no way it doesn't kill economy too.if you don't drive it much,i suppose it wouldn't matter.id likely do the same.just replace the fan clutch though if you put any real miles per year on the truck.