im still diggin for a precircuited modual for it..pretty sure DC motors it doesnt matter ...they can be varried...its the AC motors that you gotta be carefull with... as far as i know atleast... yea gimme a pic of that foam stuff... i went to home depot and all i could find is sticky backed foam stripping and figured it wouldnt stay inpalce b/c it just had a straight backing to it not U'd like your talkin about to go around the edge of the metal... i bought a roll of regular weather stripping and sliced it to fit but it was still too thick width wise and would let me fit the fan support...i built it within a max of a 1/4 inch on one side and a 1/8 inch from top to bottom with out throwing off the mounting tabs...

and.. (kicking my own ***) i didnt drill a hole..completley slipped my mind... im gonna see if i can do it this weekend...i bought like 3 extra tstat gaskets and like 4 extra tb gaskets (bought the stealership out! lol) so if i need to i can... im gonna try to do it with out sacraficing any coolant.. or as little as possible... if the burping doest get any better by the weekend

 

to yank the t-stat, you only have to drain off a little coolant, just enough to get the t-stat above the waterline.

an after thought to the fan sensor setup we're talking about... where did you put the sensor you currently have? is it in the upper coolant hose or in the radiator fins? the thought occured to me that if it's in the lower hose, what temp do you set the fans to? another question would be w/o e-fans (using the clutch setup) what's the input water temp at the lower hose?

All this fan talk is getting me motivated to do mine...

 

Hey shott- do you know what temp. the fans are set up to come on at?

 

yea im gonna prolly pull the stat this weekend and drill some air holes it in... (still kicking my own ***!!!)

if you look carefully at that very first pic...you can see that the temp sensor probe is stuck into the fins of the rad. i got it in the very last row that my fan support will allow.. i wanted to find some way to be able to put it actually IN the coolant but after talking to rm-indy and him haveing a hard time with it sealing correctly i chose to stick it in the fins.... its stuck in the upper inlet side of the rad..where the hottest coolant comes in... i got the temp sensor set to the coldest setting..about 180degs... so if and when that stat even opens up itll kick on right away... and hasnt kicked on longer then 15 secons and then shuts right off...

steve im not sure what the actually temp is of the upper hose and the lower hose difference is... ic an shoot it with my temp gun and get a general idea if you want me to....i just think i got a nasty air pocket somewhere that still needs to burp out.....

 

I have a temp gun as well so dont worry about it unless you want to know for your setup. Also, you only need 1 really small hole for the t-stat. just a place for air to escape from when filling up the cooling system.

 

yea i dug up them pics you sent me awhile back...

heres a better pic of the fans

the second one is where the probe sticks through the rad

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STOP MAKING YOUR POSTS TO FREAKIN LONG! Its almost to much to read on my lunch hour!

 

lol... speed read...

that is a real nice setup you have there! one thing to keep in the back of your head is what if the water level goes down? will the sensor be able to measure the temp accurately enough to kick the fan on?

 

LOL sorry socha

thats a good thought steve...didnt think about that... maybe i should wire in a mater override switch to kick them on whenever i need them to...


im trying to do a DYI on my msd install but its being a pain

do you agree steve that the computer needs a little bit to learn taht the new op temp is around 180 and not 195 anymore,, b/c if it doesnt reach that 195 for an extended period of time doesnt it dump extra gas in the inectors trying to warm up the motor?

 

it will map the fuel to the 180 deg op temp that it's running at. I havent seen that much of a drop in mpg each time i've done the 180 t-stat swap (from the 195)... 4 times now. after about 165~170 deg F, its going into closed loop mode and will stop dumping extra fuel into the motor...

the pcm should adapt in 200~400 miles... after that it should be set.