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Posted: 5/9/05
The electric fan controller, Advance Auto Parts Imperial/Hayden part # 226204 | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
I walked down all the rows of Ford cars looking for a Mark VIII to get the fan from, as I've heard i... | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
1998 Thunderbird. This pic shows the depth of the electric fan into the engine bay, and kind of what... | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
Theres a 1994 t-bird next to it with 30k miles more than the 1998. I took the newer one with less mi... | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
All the stuff I have amassed so far for the swap, and the Taurus fan. 16 inches. Hard to see but I p... |
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Posted: 5/9/05
Taurus fan: 22 inches across | 
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Taurus fan: 17 inches vertical | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
Taurus fan: About 5 inches deep | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
T-bird fan. Also 22 inches across, and since its square, its about 22 inches vertical | 
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Posted: 5/9/05
T-bird fan: About 5 inches deep.
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Posted: 5/9/05
All my stuff. A new quality pair of wire cutters/strippers/crimpers from Grainger, project box, grom... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
T-bird fan 18 inches across | 
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Remove the 4 fan bolts... | 
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It might take some persuasion depending on how long its been on, but mine came off easy, only been o... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
Thread the fan bolts back in. These also hold the outer water pump pulley on. |
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Posted: 5/10/05
T-bird fan held in place. There is very little room, 1-2 mm between the motor and the pulleys...not ... | 
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Top down view, you can see its too deep to fit. This is most likely due to the extremely large radia... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
Taurus fan fits perfectly. Not sure why there is a difference, When I measured the thickness of the ... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
I held it to the drivers side of the radiator, I'm not sure it really matters where on the radiator ... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
Held in the middle of the radiator, it's close but no interference. I guess I dont know how to use a... |
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Posted: 5/10/05
Not content to use the smaller Taurus fan, I decided to cut a little bit of the shroud off the T-bir... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
Flush with the drivers side of the radiator, there is now enough clearance to mount it, and allow fo... | 
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Posted: 5/10/05
Cut the mounting tab off the side of it. The tab was pushing the fan off the radiator a bit allowing... | 
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Posted: 5/11/05
This is a blue/white wire to either the EEC or Fuel Pump relay.
It is the most convenient tie-in I... | 
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Posted: 5/11/05
This is the yellow wire from the fan controller that ties into the IGN ON blue/white wire by the FP/... |
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Posted: 5/11/05
This is where the project box is going. I'm leaving it open until I tweak everything and confirm eer... | 
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Posted: 5/11/05
I didnt have any heat shrink this big so I had to resort to electrical tape. This is the splice into... | 
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Posted: 5/11/05
The 300 amp continuous duty solenoid. Way overkill, and hindsight and some more research shows I cou... | 
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Posted: 5/11/05
Temperature probe installed right next to the inlet coolant hose. Its a nice tight fit, I cant imagi... | 
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Posted: 5/15/05
This is the tie-in for the green AC ON wire to the fan controller. This tells the fan to come on eve... |
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Posted: 5/15/05
This is where I routed the wires for the fan. Gonna put split hose on it when I get around to it.
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Posted: 5/15/05
Bottom up view of the routing of my fan wires.
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Posted: 6/13/05
Dual Taurus fans mounted. This took some shroud cutting, and the are about as close to each other as... | 
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Posted: 6/13/05
Using cardboard to make a template to cut the shroud of the dual fans around the radiator hoses etc. | 
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Posted: 6/13/05
layed over the fans I can see where I have to cut. |
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Posted: 6/13/05
It took alot of test fitting and trimming and more test fitting. About an hour of this and I had a g... | 
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Posted: 6/13/05
My wiring job. Not sure I like it, not waterproof enough but its good for now until I do a massive r... | 
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Posted: 6/13/05
A simple 1 inch wide piece of aluminum I bent to follow the countours of the fan shrouds. This is st... | 
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Posted: 7/9/06
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Electric fan install