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MudRat:
Just bought a brand new kit for £50  :clap: but i have a small problem, the instructions say it needs to be mounted like so: rad, fan, motor, but i dont have enough room behind my front grill, so can i mount it behind my rad, essentially where the original viscous fan was, blowing air onto the rad from behind, rather than blowing onto the rad from the front?

auf_wiedersehen_pet:

--- Quote from: MudRat on November 29, 2008, 19:19:17 ---can i mount it behind my rad, essentially where the original viscous fan was, blowing air onto the rad from behind, rather than blowing onto the rad from the front?

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Sounds feasible - but it would need to be mounted to suck the air out otherwise the Kenlowe would be blowing hot air into the rad from behind and the wind would be blowing it back into the rad from the front.

My Disco has one behind the rad (as like your's, there's no room at the front) which sucks!

trecfive:
Mount it on the rad in place of the viscous fan, then connect the wires up so the fan sucks instead of blowing(reverse the polarity)

JIMBOBLY:
it would proberbly worth going on ebay and see if you could get a grill panel of a late 300tdi or td5,cause they had air con,the grill is much bigger to fit the aircon rad in,as you might know,then you would be able to put it at font or the back of the radiator :-k

Range Rover Blues:
Some Kenlowe and Pacet fans are designed ot be either pullers or pushers, in which case fit it insode as a puller.  Otherwise youneed to fit the airconn grille as suggested.

If you fit a pusher inside the engine bay then what will happen is that the rad will work fine withou the fan but when things get a bit hot the electric fan will push the hot air back into the rad making things worse, even more so if the truck is moving as no air will flow through the rad at all.

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