Showing posts with label cooling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooling. Show all posts

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*