August 12, 2012
This has largely been trouble free, except I found why I was losing a
little coolant, the timing cover gasket was going bad. I just ran it
with a slight leak for a little while until it was pissing coolant as
you added it.
Decided it was time to replace that, tore it all apart and found the
timing chain stretched badly. The chain had about
1/2-3/4" of play, so I bought one of those too. New chain shows a stark
difference in the lack of play.
It's great having the temperature stay more regulated, and no leaking.
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Electric Fans
My stock fan shroud was hacked to pieces, and I really liked having a Ford Taurus fan setup on my Jeep, so I started looking at electric cooling fan options. I found a pair on ebay that seemed to be quality units and moved 2500CFM each.
I visited Midwest Steel Works to buy some steel sheet for the new fan shroud. I bought the proper size and proceeded to trace out two holes for the fans. I used a jigsaw for cutting so the holes weren't that clean. After some clean up with a die grinder though, everything looked decent.
The fans are each wired through their own relay directly into the battery. The relays are controlled with a simple, temperature based fan controller as well as input from the A/C compressor. Even on 95* days with the A/C running, the fans keep the engine nice and cool at 180*
I visited Midwest Steel Works to buy some steel sheet for the new fan shroud. I bought the proper size and proceeded to trace out two holes for the fans. I used a jigsaw for cutting so the holes weren't that clean. After some clean up with a die grinder though, everything looked decent.
The fans are each wired through their own relay directly into the battery. The relays are controlled with a simple, temperature based fan controller as well as input from the A/C compressor. Even on 95* days with the A/C running, the fans keep the engine nice and cool at 180*
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