ok yall i've been seeing a lot about electric fans and was just wondering what the advantages were over a stock fan?

 

Electric fans keep your engine cooler, especially at low engine rpm'sbecause they run at a constant speedand improve the horsepower and torque at the wheels by eliminating the parasitic drag of the stock belt-driven fan.
Electric fans also allow quicker warm ups and cool downs, longer water pump life, less fan noise, improved air conditioner performance and improve gas mileage.

 

how hard are they to install and how they much they cost?

 

Cooler truck = longer life. Some even have multiple speeds which is good if your truck sometimes over heats.

Hammer how long was your install?

 

Install is very easy, getting the stock fan off is a bitch. It took me longer to figure out how to get something to hold the fan spindle (or whatever the hell you call it) so the fan would spin off than it did to get the fan off and mount the e-fan, set the t-stat and run the electric wires...

 

I just clamped the water pump fin and put some ***** into it and got that sumbitch off.

hey im getting grief over in the CTD section on Efans, they say they suck for diesels, that they need more CFM, i showed them one with 6,000 cfm, wtf, how much does a diesel need.

 

Water pump fin? Yeah, I bet the diesels generate more heat. Wouldna thought that much more, though.

 

Yea, you'd think that kind of cfm would be plenty, and it very well might be. But I've heard for years that e-fans and diesels did not mix...

Although for our trucks they are great. In my local, they are much better than stock. Not only did I get a little mpg boost from it, but I travel a lot on I95 and in the summer, when it's bumper to bumper and you are stop and go, everybody with a conventional fan is worrying about overheating, cause that stock fan is barely moving when standing still. But my little beauty is still turning at full speed, pulling 3300 cfm all the time...

 

hammer can you post a pic of your efan and engine compartment?

 

I'll have to see if I can get one tomorrow, getting dark now. It's tough to see it real well because I used the stock shroud, but maybe if I stand on the nerf bars I can get a good angle from the windshield side.