Is the thermometer on the drivers side near water inlet? If it is on the other side, water is already cooling before it sets. The difference you are seeing is the temp at engine and temp at radiator. I had to move it around on my Jag to get it to cut on when I wanted.

 

No its as close to the inlet as it can be, upper right corner if your facing the truck from the front. I know tapping into the actual tubing or engine would be much better but theres no pre formed places to tap in like on my friends trucks. So I decided not to deal with that kind of temperature switch. But my gas gauge is quite a bit off too on my truck so Im blaming the accuracy on the factory gauges, haha

 

Curious as to how you finally mounted the stock resevoir and washer bottles...I am about to start my own build on a shroud and would love to hear any ideas on the bottle placements.

 

What fans did you use?

 

For the bottles I had just cut off the mounts from the original fan shroud. But I felt like it took up too much space. So right now they are still just ziptied down and outta the way. And the fans are 14 inch pro comps. Relatively cheap fans and claim to draw just under 15 amps. (I haven tested it so I can't Prove that) but they have a surprisingly good airflow for their low amp draw.

 

I am going in with the dual 14 inch procomps on my rig. Glad to hear they are doing well for you. This makes me excited to get started on mine!

 

its impossible to convince people that CAI dont do squat. i give up lol

 

Mainly because the only difference between 99% of the CAI's out there on the market for our trucks, only benefit is, they might flow a bit better. They are still drawing air from the EXACT same place as the factory system.

 

Nice wanna make me a shroud for a 19" fan :P

 

My Efan set up definitely keep my radiator cooler than te stock fan ever did. Cause I sealed that fan shroud up as tight as possible. Plus my trucks practically a Prius with that .5 mpg gain that I achieved. Lol. But more importantly it make my engine bay look sick. If all that means I haven't done squat by adding the fans then I don't know what anything means anymore.