Lucas
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- ZOO YORK CITY
Went wheeling last weekend and it was about 90 degrees out on the trail. I have converted my mechanical fan with an electric wired in with the stock electic fan with a GDI 3 core radiator.
There was a big hill climb that 2 CJs on something like 38" TSLs/Boggers and a caged explorer on 36TSLs were having massive trouble on (mostly because they ran full width axles). To get past the same spot (31" pro comp MTs, open diffs) I had to really wail on the 4.0.
At the top of the mountain, I let my jeep idle in the sun during lunch with AC on full blast and the temp needle started to rise to almost redline. It had never gotten so hot since the electic conversion. I figured that my luck had run out and the new system just couldn't keep up witht the mech fan.
I got home and the next day I found that I was running 10 or so degrees warmer than I usually do around the city, and the AC would push it waaaay over normal. I checked my fans more closely and found that the studs from the old mechanical fan had apparently moved forward enough while I was gunning it up the climb (I was REALLY on the gas pedal) to tear out the back guts of my new electric. Its better for the pulley to take out a fan than for the mech fan to take out the rad. IMHO. So, all Sunday I was running trails with one stock electric fan and the GDI. Albiet a little warm, I bet there woluld be no way I could have made it with a stock rad. and that fan.
As for the conversion electric, im replacing it ASAP and cutting down those studs.
There was a big hill climb that 2 CJs on something like 38" TSLs/Boggers and a caged explorer on 36TSLs were having massive trouble on (mostly because they ran full width axles). To get past the same spot (31" pro comp MTs, open diffs) I had to really wail on the 4.0.
At the top of the mountain, I let my jeep idle in the sun during lunch with AC on full blast and the temp needle started to rise to almost redline. It had never gotten so hot since the electic conversion. I figured that my luck had run out and the new system just couldn't keep up witht the mech fan.
I got home and the next day I found that I was running 10 or so degrees warmer than I usually do around the city, and the AC would push it waaaay over normal. I checked my fans more closely and found that the studs from the old mechanical fan had apparently moved forward enough while I was gunning it up the climb (I was REALLY on the gas pedal) to tear out the back guts of my new electric. Its better for the pulley to take out a fan than for the mech fan to take out the rad. IMHO. So, all Sunday I was running trails with one stock electric fan and the GDI. Albiet a little warm, I bet there woluld be no way I could have made it with a stock rad. and that fan.
As for the conversion electric, im replacing it ASAP and cutting down those studs.
