Project nastypile

[stx4wheeler]

alright i had some trailer tire issues and fagged out on spring creek yesterday. So i ran it around my house and within 15minutes it over heated, and burned thru the plastic line for the oil pressure gauge which got layed against the manifold. Things that need to be fixed before tcc, install some sort of electric fan either a pusher and leave the mechanical fan in place with a pusher fan in front of the radiator? or remove the mechanical fan and install a new 15 in e-fan. I also need to turn the idle screw down since it is idiling to fast.

What is everyone running on there v-8's out there to keep it cool? Will a 15inch e-fan from vatozone do the trick most likely?


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[Sharpe]

Ford windstar or taurus fan(s).

[85cj7]

I just have a cheap vatozone 16" puller. But if it's overheating and you already have a functioning fan a bigger fan is just a band-aid fix and isn't addressing your real problem. Find the true reason it's overheating.

[stx4wheeler]

the real problem is it is a 32 year old truck, that doesn't have a shroud for the mechanical fan if i had to guess.

[KrazyKarl02]

that doesn't have a shroud for the mechanical fan if i had to guess.

bingo...

Is that a skull and cross bone on the wheel slug?

[DRAGOONRANCH]

I had two 12"s on the chevy and they did pretty good. Depending on the cfm, two slightly smaller may be better than the one large 15"

[eight]

I have two 12" ones on the jeep. It will run a little warm with just one of them. I like that if one motor burnt out I'd still be OK. They're off an 03 malibu and fit the cj radiator very well.

I'm considering going back to a mechanical fan to have less crap to worry about. Probably a flex fan.

[redcagepatrol]

SPAL fan - build a shroud...

[stx4wheeler]

me needum waggie quadra trac t-case kasey or anyone got one? i will try jb weld first.

[TexTJ209]

Only one I've got is trashed and in corpus.

[TexTJ209]

Kevin, there isn't much (if anything) that will bolt in place of the Quadratrac due to it using a big ass 10 spline input shaft. I'll keep an eye out for a replacement..


Edit: You'd have to swap the tailshaft and adapter on the TH400 to go to any other tcase. They came with a D20 behind the TH400, so if you could find that setup it'd be a good swap, but they aren't exactly common.


What exactly happened to yours?

[bcolman]

he landed on a rock and the rock won

[TexTJ209]

So just the case is fawked, or did it take out the magic bits inside?

[bcolman]

he was still able to drive it so i would assume that just the case is toast, but i am not sure

[stx4wheeler]

case has a pencil sized hole below where the rear output is.

do i need a full case or can i find one that is missing the low range box? kasey give me a call if you can so i can run some things by you 7 1 3 670 4 5 3 5