Testing Out

[FordGuy100]

No cooling fan. A series of events puts my truck back on the road until I fix another daily driver so it can go off to the body shop. Old water pump is out, new one almost in. Problem, can not for the life of me get the fan assembly off the old water pump. My grandfather, aka "King Loctite" loves to use loctite on everything. Upon remembering he did a waterpump, it is now known to me this fan is loctited on.

Anyways I will be running no cooling fan for a couple days. Will post up with ambient temperatures and coolant temperatures. My truck before would run roughly 190-195*...so we shall see what it will do. Highs are in the 40-50's until later this week when it will be 60-70's.

 

[dyoung14]

No cooling fan. A series of events puts my truck back on the road until I fix another daily driver so it can go off to the body shop. Old water pump is out, new one almost in. Problem, can not for the life of me get the fan assembly off the old water pump. My grandfather, aka "King Loctite" loves to use loctite on everything. Upon remembering he did a waterpump, it is now known to me this fan is loctited on.

Anyways I will be running no cooling fan for a couple days. Will post up with ambient temperatures and coolant temperatures. My truck before would run roughly 190-195*...so we shall see what it will do. Highs are in the 40-50's until later this week when it will be 60-70's.

How did you even get the pump off without taking the fan off?

Its easy to take them off, before you do anything else leave all the belts on and tight, take a propane torch or something similar, and heat it good and hot lock the truck 4x4 and put it in gear, the belts need to be tight enough that it will turn the engine, remeber it has left handed threads so you need to turn it clockwise to loosen it, now it uses i really big nut so i always use this really big pair of channel locks and they work great,

LOCKTITE IS A MUST ON THE FAN TO KEEP IT FROM SPINNING ITSELF OFF ON SHUT-DOWN, a low grade locktite works fine

 

[gonecrazyi]

You shouldn't have any problems. Unless you are pulling heavy it takes awhile for the motor to heat up anyway.

 

[dyoung14]

By the way, i ran my fan off of my truck for awhile when i first put the engine back in, and running around it never got over 180, even at stop lights it would slightly come up, BUT if you do any off roading or slow speed driving on gravel roads, prepare for it to get HOT! and fast, i forgot about it one time when i went mudding and it got up to 240 degrees before i noticed it but no damage was done

 

[FordGuy100]

Tried to do it with it on the engine, just spinned the belts. Thats besides the point now .

 

[dyoung14]

Tried to do it with it on the engine, just spinned the belts. Thats besides the point now .

Heat is all it takes

 

[icanfixall]

Heat it up to around 250 degrees but make sure you protect the fan clutch shaft seal. You need both wrenches for it to come off now and its going to be tuff because its free to move around on the floor or bench.... Sorry...

 

[gonecrazyi]

Air chisel and a vice should take that off withou a problem.

 

[idi traveler]

Mine just spun off and put a small hole in my radiator. loctite is a must when you put it back together. and from what I have been told that the torque speck is 165' lb. You may need heat with it off the truck.

 

[icanfixall]

Just two or three drops of blue loctite works fine. With the 165 lbs torque you wont be loosing it and when its time to remove it next time it will free up easily. Just lengthen your wrenches some...

 

[94turboidi]

I couldn't get mine off either. A little heat helped alot. I just losed one of the bolts and put the closed end of the wrench over it and against the hub of the water pump for leverage and turned the opposed direction with channel locks. You could also rent the correct tools if its really stubborn and it catches I think all four bolt heads with a big square wrench and then another big wrench to turn the opposite direction. I had to rent one for my dads 5.4 engine because I couldn't get it off without it. It came off really easy with the right tools and it was a free rental. Again heat does wonders on loctite.

 

[typ4]

Mine isnt loctited on, but it is torqued to the "russ damn tight " spec

 

[94turboidi]

Mine isnt loctited on, but it is torqued to the "russ damn tight " spec

That sounds like the specs I used also.

 

[FordGuy100]

I prefere the German tightening specs:

Gooduntight!

 

[dyoung14]

Mine isnt loctited on, but it is torqued to the "russ damn tight " spec

I hope it don't fly off one day when you shut it off. You will be cryin when you replace the rad lol