and decided to remove my clutch fan, broke loose extremely easily prolly because of this BFW lol
1.5" wrench


used a c-clamp to hold the pulley in place


the fan looks weird, thought it would be symetric all tthe way around, it looks like a little person lol

 

Thats an odd shape for something that spins for a living lol

You need the BFH too? This is on my loooong list

 

nice, i'm going to to this when i get back from my springbreak. notice any difference?

 

nope no bfh needed for me barely had to push on the wrench to get it loose, did it with one hand lol
ive noticed there is so roaring sound on cold start up, havent driven enough to really notice a difference, i did drive for about thirty min today and the temp gauge never got past half

 

you will get slightly better gas mileage, at least i have. Mine was seized and i was like "why spend 60 bucks on a new fanclutch when i could just take it off and it be fine".

Ive had no regrets so far!

edit: its shaped oddly because of balancing issues or something weird like that. You never know what those dodge engineers will do lol.

 

i just did this yesterday as well, and ordered a new e-fan and wiring kit from Summit.

all i used to remove the fan clutch was a big pair of channel locks to hold the pulley, and a 14" crescent to turn the nut.

it sure does look spacious with no fan shroud or fan in there now!

 

not that spacious tho, ive gotta buddy with a 01 ram and the 318 there is so much room in there even with the fan lol. another one of my freinds has a 85 f150 with the 5L v8 and when we work on it we just sit in the engine compartment on the wheel wells lol if only we had that much room to work with

 

yea but are their trucks as cool as our dakotas? =P

edit: may look more spacious in a v6 than a v8, not sure tho Independent

 

not even close lol, ive raced both of them and absolutely crushed them lol gotta love our power to weight ratio lol

 

Have you ever raced a Nissan Titan? Those things hall ***.

Power to weight ratio? Ours is actually pretty bad, too much real truck (steel) in our truck.