Howdy, I'm after the dimensions of the stock shroud unit + thermo fan that goes onto the radiator in a M13A Jimny. Particularly the measurement from the radiator/front of shroud to the back of the fan motor. If it looks like it will fit for me I will buy one.
I believe that some came with the fan attached to the engine...,mine did, but I am fairly sure that option won't work as well for me as an electrical one would. The engines on an angle compared to the rad, I would have to find some of them studs, a fan.. and I want to be able to turn it off. I have seen some with electrical fans on ebay so there must be some out there. Or perhaps another car that uses the same engine/rad uses them?
Why?
My engine gets hotter than I would like with a good ebay thermo cable tied right onto the radiator, i.e. if I do a lot of hard slow driving on a hot day it overheats :/, its not capable of cooling itself down once you have got it to 110oC+ and then don't move the zook, I need to go for a fast drive or turn it off to cool it back down. Soooo I'm thinking it might be worth trying with a shroud to get more air over more metal. And buying one is a lot easier than making one. If this isn't possible we will have to make one up though. I have ~70mm of room between the radiator and the water output/pulleys on the front of the engine in the tightest spot at the top, so not a huge amount of room :/.
Here is the best 2 pics I seem to have of the current set up that has worked ok for 2 years, but there is always room for improvement
, I'm also going to see if it makes a difference if I use the inbuilt oil cooler in the rad instead of the external one etc, so I have some oil temp gauges and T junctions coming. I only realised what those 2 outlets on the bottom were recently lol, and I'm trying to track down some fittings.
Thanks!