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The electric fan controller, Advance Auto Parts Imperial/Hayden part # 226204

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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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1998 Thunderbird. This pic shows the depth of the electric fan into the engine bay, and kind of what...

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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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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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Taurus fan: 22 inches across

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Taurus fan: 17 inches vertical

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Taurus fan: About 5 inches deep

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T-bird fan. Also 22 inches across, and since its square, its about 22 inches vertical

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T-bird fan: About 5 inches deep.

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All my stuff. A new quality pair of wire cutters/strippers/crimpers from Grainger, project box, grom...

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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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Thread the fan bolts back in. These also hold the outer water pump pulley on.

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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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Taurus fan fits perfectly. Not sure why there is a difference, When I measured the thickness of the ...

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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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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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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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Flush with the drivers side of the radiator, there is now enough clearance to mount it, and allow fo...

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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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840 hits | 79.39 KB | 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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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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This is where the project box is going. I'm leaving it open until I tweak everything and confirm eer...

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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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The 300 amp continuous duty solenoid. Way overkill, and hindsight and some more research shows I cou...

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Temperature probe installed right next to the inlet coolant hose. Its a nice tight fit, I cant imagi...

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787 hits | 70.89 KB | 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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696 hits | 68.98 KB | 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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Bottom up view of the routing of my fan wires.

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857 hits | 69.93 KB | 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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Using cardboard to make a template to cut the shroud of the dual fans around the radiator hoses etc.

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layed over the fans I can see where I have to cut.

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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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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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820 hits | 66.58 KB | 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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