Pete M
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- S/E Michigan
If anyone has seen this on the web already, I apologize for eating up another two minutes of your time. Apparently my original post here didn't go through cause I can't find it anywhere. But I have a question for you, why did you click on it again? :laugh3:
My truck *desperately* needed some ventilation up front (summer time driving can leave the steel so hot that you won't touch it with bare hands) but I just wasn't willing to open up the engine bay to rain and snow. So I decided on a hood-scoop lookin' vent that should keep out most of the moisture. But I couldn't leave well enough alone so I added a pusher fan from the junkyard. Even has a cool mesh guard around it! But it turned out to be a bit too powerful (think "leaf blower"), so I toned it down with part of a stock MJ/XJ resistor pack with the little coils stuck up inside the scoop in the breeze so they can cool off and no one will burn themselves on them. For those of you that don't know, the interior blower's resister pack consists of several windings of different gauge wire that gets very, *VERY* hot.
And yes, I built the scoop myself, how could you tell? :laugh3:
Jeep on!
-Pete
The scoop faces forwards so as to keep the hot air from hitting my windshield all the time. I don't imagine it'll be running while on the road, just the trail. Maybe on the road it'll draw cool air into the compartment? Dunno. I have it and my aux fan powered through relays with swiches in tha cab so I can experiment as time goes on. The first big test will hopefully be Moab in three weeks.
Since the photo, I've sealed up the gaps around the fan so alll of the air goes out
If the images don't show, go to http://www.picturetrail.com/petermontie and they're in the "Newest changes" at the top.
My truck *desperately* needed some ventilation up front (summer time driving can leave the steel so hot that you won't touch it with bare hands) but I just wasn't willing to open up the engine bay to rain and snow. So I decided on a hood-scoop lookin' vent that should keep out most of the moisture. But I couldn't leave well enough alone so I added a pusher fan from the junkyard. Even has a cool mesh guard around it! But it turned out to be a bit too powerful (think "leaf blower"), so I toned it down with part of a stock MJ/XJ resistor pack with the little coils stuck up inside the scoop in the breeze so they can cool off and no one will burn themselves on them. For those of you that don't know, the interior blower's resister pack consists of several windings of different gauge wire that gets very, *VERY* hot.
And yes, I built the scoop myself, how could you tell? :laugh3:
Jeep on!
-Pete
The scoop faces forwards so as to keep the hot air from hitting my windshield all the time. I don't imagine it'll be running while on the road, just the trail. Maybe on the road it'll draw cool air into the compartment? Dunno. I have it and my aux fan powered through relays with swiches in tha cab so I can experiment as time goes on. The first big test will hopefully be Moab in three weeks.
Since the photo, I've sealed up the gaps around the fan so alll of the air goes out
If the images don't show, go to http://www.picturetrail.com/petermontie and they're in the "Newest changes" at the top.