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my cluch fan has died and the price of a new one is a bit out there. would it be possible to get rid of it and install el thermo fans instead. cheers thanks for your time

anything is possible?

from what i've seen thermo fans never work aswell as a clutch fan. that's mostly due to dodgy installations though.

use the factory fan shroud and mount setup and i reckon it'd be pretty good

i would just stick to a clutch fan

Jake GQ.. wrote:my cluch fan has died and the price of a new one is a bit out there. would it be possible to get rid of it and install el thermo fans instead. cheers thanks for your time

From what I've read on here, thermo fans very, very rarely work as well
as the factory clutch fan does.

YMMV

Drill 2 holes in the hub and inject silicon oil bought from toyota. Use a couple of screws to seal it up and off you go. I have done it a few years ago and its still great

Jimbo wrote:Drill 2 holes in the hub and inject silicon oil bought from toyota. Use a couple of screws to seal it up and off you go. I have done it a few years ago and its still great

is this really necessary?
ive replaced one mine about a month ago in a car ive been thrashen since 2002?? done nearly 4 hundred k's...s

Unless u can find a thermo fan that can pump out as much air flow as the stock viscouse I wouldn't go muckin around trying to change things. Manufacturers match a fan with a cooling system to work specifically for that application. U could do it hard core and put In a big desert cooler radiator and run a big truck oil cooler fan on a 24v system. That would give u piece of mind. But massive overkill

I have a 1990 GQ LWB 4.2 duel fuel auto, I have mounted a set of EF falcon twin thermo's onto my original radiator and have had no troubles at all, I live in western Victoria where it gets dam hot. If you do the conversion make sure you get the fans that one is a duel speed, the whole fan shroud will mount straight onto a standard GQ radiator. I have it hooked up so that the single speed fan is hooked to the ignition thru a relay, also a switch on the dash to turn it off if going thru water, then the other fan is ran thru duel relays to a multi position switch on the dash, marked "LOW & HIGH", but so far I have only ever used the low speed a couple of times in the bush on hot days when just crawling around slowly. I plan to hook up the main fan through a temp switch but I may not. It all works great now. I picked up th EF fans from EBAY including postage for $65, then go to a wreckers and get an ea-ed bank of relays cutting enough wire to rejoin and hook it all up. But that is just my 2 cents worth.

I and a couple of mates have tried electric fans on our petrol and diesel gqs - all with proper shrouds / twin fans and relays. and none of them have worked too well , we still had over heating problems with them here in nsw .
We all ended up putting our clutch driven fans back on , after we refilled them with the silicone that Jimbo said previously we got from toyota, was about $12 if i remember , and this fixed all our problems with over heating .
Or you could just go buy a new coupling from repco or similar i think they are around $150 new .

Try Blackburn 4x4 or Ebay seller matts0510, They sell genuine Nissan gear at very good prices.
I have bought a Genuine fan clutch from them for around $120 not too sure as I've bought a bit of stuff there, Give them a try.