robp38
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does anyone know what size the nut is to undo the fan and is it a left hand thread ?:doh:
viscous fan removal
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Victor Lampart
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Hi Rob,
32mm and it is a left hand thread.Your local motor factor should do a special spanner made by LASER TOOLS and its about £8,makes it a lot easier than a conventional spanner.
Regards Vic
32mm and it is a left hand thread.Your local motor factor should do a special spanner made by LASER TOOLS and its about £8,makes it a lot easier than a conventional spanner.
Regards Vic
robp38
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thanks vic
thanks vic
If you get a bar or long chisle onto it, a sharp chap should get it off, it always worked for me. Probably find the bastid just spins on the belt anyway, if we bought a tool for every job the workshop would be full of tools and no motors, sometimes you have to improvise.
Its probably gona be a one off job and your spanners gona be an ornament, and if its really tight yur gona have to skelp it anyway.
paddocks1967
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hi, twelve inch shifting spanner will do the job,also use a big screwdriiver to jam thefan from spinning put it between the two wee bolts
Irishrover
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If it's petrol, the spanner size is 36mm and it's a normal RIGHT HAND thread.
ssmn1234
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Just get yourself a strap wrench, (plumbers type) it can be used for many other things so will not be a one-off use, put it on fan pulley and use a set spanner of correct size, or a shifter. No wacking required, no risk of flying spanners and best of all, no skinned knuckles, and it'll be a lot more gentle on components.
Yeh right, yur gona have both hands down the front of the engine pushing and puffing like fook and when it goes yur not gona get yur fingers
And when was a shifter any good for tight stuff, slippy slippy oops.
ssmn1234
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Yeh right, yur gona have both hands down the front of the engine pushing and puffing like fook and when it goes yur not gona get yur fingers
And when was a shifter any good for tight stuff, slippy slippy oops.
I did say set spanner as first statement, shifters are not that good on small dimension nuts, but the viscous nut is large and if a shifter rotates on it then, you need to invest in a better shifter, or adjust it correctly.
Cant get a shifter into fans its toooooo fat, yur gona have to get a speshul one and its too fokin short and yur gon a bash yur fingers, I can see it coming, either that its gona be fokin solid and you bash the speshul spanner and it goes righty through the radiator.
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must be cause those f oooken big Scottish gnarley maulers you got on the end of your upper limbs, get the lil lady to do it for ya then
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Just get the viscous spanner, I spent a whole day trying to shift mine without before giving up :frusty:and going shopping..... and when you put it back on a dash of the ol copperslip is a good idea, makes it easier next time
must be cause those f oooken big Scottish gnarley maulers you got on the end of your upper limbs, get the lil lady to do it for ya then
It fokin is actually, over the years thos bastid fans have never come off for me, the fokin spanner is too small and thin and rounds off too easy, there aint no real way of locking em coz there aint no room in there and when it does go if it does its yur fingers that gets it. So myself and others opted for the big bar with the sharpened end on it, get the coont righty on a corner and one or two good whacks its off.
Having said that I had my own personal black cloud that followed me.
Just get the viscous spanner, I spent a whole day trying to shift mine without before giving up :frusty:and going shopping..... and when you put it back on a dash of the ol copperslip is a good idea, makes it easier next time
When you take it off toss it to fook and fit an electric one.
A fokin whole day!!!, did you stop a few times to give the missus a good seeing too, ffs I could have walked down there and got it orf quicker, without the shiny spanner, that you aint gona use again.
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I'm looking at leccy ones at the moment, would you recommend a single large one or smaller twins?When you take it off toss it to fook and fit an electric one.
A fokin whole day!!!, did you stop a few times to give the missus a good seeing too, ffs I could have walked down there and got it orf quicker, without the shiny spanner, that you aint gona use again.
and of course I'm gonna use the spanner again,....it's a P38
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open end spanner and a thor hammer, every time, my last one were on fer 25 years, still come off easy enough, lock the pully with a long bar with a rag wrapped round the end against the LR, one sharp fast swing at the spanner, simples,
I'm looking at leccy ones at the moment, would you recommend a single large one or smaller twins?
and of course I'm gonna use the spanner again,....it's a P38
I would fit one big one, my disco has one but it rarely comes on, most of the time it comes on after its switched off taking away the residual heat and I think that can only be good for the engine, head gaskets etc.
You can get plenty from the breakers, there is a bit one this site for that, dont use the kenlow thermostat tho there is a better one apparently, mine's been ok tho.
open end spanner and a thor hammer, every time, my last one were on fer 25 years, still come off easy enough, lock the pully with a long bar with a rag wrapped round the end against the LR, one sharp fast swing at the spanner, simples,
What you are actually saying here is that after 25 years the body fell off and you had plenty room, coz it was just an engine and chassis, no thinking about it just an engine.
