E30 Zone

ok guys, back in the right section, viscous fan has gone, how easy please is it to remove?
Do i need to take rad out? or just get spanner on and untighten? left hand thread i believe.
cheers matt

yeah its left handed thread mate, you will need a viscous fan removal spanner. these can be bought at motor factors quite cheap.

no need to remove the rad!! some can be a bitch if theyve been on for a while.... put the viscous spanner on the nut and hit the end with a hammer to shock it off, left handed of course

nicley, cheers mate

iirc its a 32mm open ended spanner you need mate

cool, got the fan (ECP) , just needed to get a spanner.

Got mine from Halfords 6 quid i think?

Sometimes you have to wedge a pry bar between the nuts on the water pump pulley just to stop it spinning if it is stubborn.

I hate viscous clutches, they are a stupid design

viscous delete and electric fan with danthe fan loom for the win boyo's

sounds like a plan dk, but how easy and cost?cheers

Left hand thread these things, what should be an easy job is made harder by the last guy tightening it !

Where in the country are you ? I have that spanner

hello, just up the road in farnham, sorry havent got back earlier, been to Goodwood. cheers Matt

if you have trouble, pop down i'll give you a hand

thats cool, i am meant to have a mates mechanic do it tomorrow, but if no luck i'll pop down in one night in week, cheers well appreciated, matt

e30-dk wrote:some can be a bitch if theyve been on for a while....

The ones that have been since the car was made or in the hands of "quality" garages are the easy ones to remove. It's the ones that have been attended to by some back street garages and enthusiastic DIYers, who have torqued them up to 200 lb.ft and added a bit of Loctite for good measure that are the problem!

e30-dk wrote:viscous delete and electric fan with danthe fan loom for the win boyo's

Fine, if you have an engine that leaves no room for a mechanically driven fan, but electric fans are orders of magnitude less reliable than a viscous set up.

Yup, I found out this weekend that my aux fan for the A/C wasn't working, god knows how long it had been like that but I'd hate to think what would have happened if that had been the only fan in there.

Turned out to be nothing more than a bad earth but it was a bugger to find.