taking off fan how to
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taking off fan how to
i started to tear down my motor and im at the point where the engine fan has to come off. while i turn the nuts in the bak of the fan what do i do to stop everything from spinning along with them.
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Originally Posted by My5ABaby
Hold it with your hand?
if not u need to spend a little more 1 on 1 time with jenna jameson lol!
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Originally Posted by MDD0101
hmm i thought they were 10mm..but yea 4 bolts behind the fan
Anywho, IIRC they connect from the fan to the shaft (or whatever it's called). Just hold a fan blade with one hand and use the ratchet in the other. Then again maybe I'm thinking of something else... but I'm pretty sure that's it.
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http://www.rotaryresurrection.com/2n...e_removal.html
on step three it says use a long flat screw driver to keep it from spinning...but doesnt say how or where to put it.
on step three it says use a long flat screw driver to keep it from spinning...but doesnt say how or where to put it.
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take a long flat head screw driver and wedge it between on of the bottom nuts and against the pulley and pull the opposite way of your wrench. I cant explain it too much better than that but its pretty self explanatory once you put the flat head in there and see were to wedge. Then just go one by one and sping the fan with the next tight bolt until you work all of them finger tight. make sure you wait until they are all loose before you take them off other wise you run the risk of flatening the threads when you are prying with the screw driver....also take your time wiggling the fan loose as it will be kinda stuck on. just dont run it into the radiator
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Actually, thats not the proper tool. The proper tool is the "fan clutch removal tool" that you can loan from many parts stores. I rented mine from O'reilly's, but I'm sure others have similar ones. It kinda clamps around two of the studs so that it stops the pulley from moving while you loosten the nut. You just loosten one, and rotate the pulley to loosten the next one. My advice is to jack up the car and have the person holding the tool get under the car and put on the tool while you loosten a nut from the top. Or you can do it the other way around. If you have the tool on the top, it gets in the way of the wrench and you can badly strip the nut (ask me how I know...).
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Wow, are we really having problems getting the fan off? I used a 10mm wrench and my free hand. Grab a fan blade with my left hand, put the wrench on the nut and what do you know, the nut came off. Repeat three more times and its off.