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The new toy has come home. this is a 1982 27' southwind motorhome. it has a 502 big block and an TH4...

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Here is the front end. this is in good shape for its age.

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here she is in front of Jezebel. They lost a fan on the way up so i going to do a ford Taruas fan sw...

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here is the back end.

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ok here is the pass side firewall as i got it.

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here are the 2 batteries. It is a wiring mess. i going to clean it up as i do the fan swap.

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this is the current fan relay the wires are too small and one of the fans burned up.

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this is the fan fuse.

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one more look at the wiring mess. lots of wires going many places.

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ok time to get some parts. 1 constant duty relay, 12AWG wire and connectors. the wire tap is fron a ...

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the relay will handle the high spike turn on the fan produces. the NAPA number is ST88

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i used 5/16 tec screws to hold the power tap to the firewall.

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i did this swap over two nights so some of the wires were moved and deleted after the next day. this...

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here is the battery after the 1st night. i had to run a temp power to the power tap and i needed the...

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i had this cable from a 3G alt swap that did not get completed. this is way over kill but the end is...

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here is the cable with the correct lug end.

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here is the tap side of the cable. this will allow anything to be powered here.

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here is the battery side after the power tap is installed and jucied up.

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ok i decided to install the relay next to the power tap.

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one side of the smaller terminals needs to goto a ground.

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i went to the battery for the ground. i will get another tap and goto it and clean this side of the ...

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the other side of the small terminal goes to a ignition hot powr source. the distributor was swapped...

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this temp probe was alread in place and working so i used it to save time.

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this is the old fan. one works the other lost its main bearing. the power feed wires are too small. ...

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i upgraded the trigger wire and connector.

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here is the old (bottom) and the new fan

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here is the other side of the fans.

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NAPA called and the fan install kit came in. this is 4 zip ties and i got some connectors for the fa...

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here is the new fan in place and ready to run.

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wel after all the work the new relay was dead. i swapped it out for an older one i had that tested w...