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kenlowe fan advice please

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topless matt:

--- Quote ---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?
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So you mean like the instructions say to mount it :lol: (behiend the rad)

Saffy:

--- Quote from: trecfive on November 29, 2008, 20:58:35 ---(reverse the polarity)

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the fan blades will be then turning in the wrong direction for their design, inefficient and probably more noise.

Some of the aftermarket fans the blades can be removed and reversed dunno if kenlowe is such a beast. My TRIPAC fan from merlin motorsport is a gender bender like that, can suck and blow with a reverse of polarity after removing the fan blades and rotating it on the shaft.

By the way the Aircon panel idea will give a goodly amount of space, but not good if you got a non-aircon winch bumper :D Also those panels are made of fibreglass, not important just not many realise that. I had one fitted to mine for awhile for other reasons, prone to cracking at the bottom side mount points but easily re-enforced.

zulublue:
Lee,

If the fan is supposed to be on the outside of the rad as a pusher then by putting it on the inside as a puller will do the same job, I used to run 2xHD Kenlowes on my V8 RRC but on the 200TDi Defender to be honest I don't use one, I have a manual override switch fitted to a Ford Mondeo fan which fits a treat, I have got an X-Eng thermostat switch on it but it has never come on (I do have this fitted after the rad) as I did not see any point of fitting it before the rad has done its work, I know the Kenlowe probe goes before but you should have a thermostat to control when it kicks in.

Anyhow as mentioned above, fit it to the inside, switch it on and if you don't have a gush of air heading towards the engine swap the + & - around.

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