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E-Fan
On the gasser fourms all you hear is "do an efan do an efan!" but I havnt heard that here. I'm a new 7.3 owner and was wondering if adding an Efan is a good idea or if it will make a difference since no one seems to talk about it.
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We have a boom truck in our work fleet that has a GVWR of over 40,000 lbs. It looks like the same cooling system as the Super Duty trucks. If you are having overheating issues then your degas bottle cap might not be holding pressure. I've seen that a few times already...
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Im not having overheating issues. Nor am I doubting the ability of these fans. I was just wondering if anyone has but an efan on their 7.3 (safely) and had it work. More for fuel economy.
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When it's needed the e-fan could NEVER keep up with what the OEM fan can move at lock-up.
Remember, these trucks were designed to be able to tow heavy, uphill for long distances, and just keep going.
Think Grapevine with 16,000 pounds behind you. Now think deleted OEM fan and added e-fan.
Whatcha' thinkin' now........?
Pop
Remember, these trucks were designed to be able to tow heavy, uphill for long distances, and just keep going.
Think Grapevine with 16,000 pounds behind you. Now think deleted OEM fan and added e-fan.
Whatcha' thinkin' now........?
Pop
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You can get away without having a fan at all during the cool months. There was someone here that had their fan fall off and they didn't notice for a while. However, I doubt an electric fan will move enough air to cool the systems while towing in the hot weather. Any electric fan that can move that much air will also draw a bunch of current and you'll have to beef up your charging system to accommodate. Seems like the advantages are outweighed by disadvantages IMO. These are just my thoughts though....there could be someone who has tried this already and maybe they will post their successes or setbacks.
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Remember that electrical energy isn't "free" at all. It still takes more fuel to run an alternator that's making current than one that's not.
Also remember that you're converting mechanical energy to electrical (running the alternator) back to mechanical (turning the e-fan's motor) to do the same job that could have been done without conversion. Any time you "convert", there's heat produced, and that just goes into the air as a loss, i.e. fuel wasted.
If you never towed, and wanted to fine-tune your cooling system to the very edge of adequate, yea, you might gain something.
But you also might get onto the backside of that curve and burn up that expensive motor, too. That's something we virtually NEVER hear of here.
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Also remember that you're converting mechanical energy to electrical (running the alternator) back to mechanical (turning the e-fan's motor) to do the same job that could have been done without conversion. Any time you "convert", there's heat produced, and that just goes into the air as a loss, i.e. fuel wasted.
If you never towed, and wanted to fine-tune your cooling system to the very edge of adequate, yea, you might gain something.
But you also might get onto the backside of that curve and burn up that expensive motor, too. That's something we virtually NEVER hear of here.
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Since my 7.3 has been down I've been doing some towing with my dad's 6.0 and have noticed that the fan clutch engages a lot more on those motors. I rarely ever hear mine kick in but the 6.0 does all the time.
Like it was said before you rarely hear of 7.3s overheating but I wouldn't risk running an electric fan because when it does get warm I don't think there is any electric fan that can pull th cfm that the stock fan does.
Like it was said before you rarely hear of 7.3s overheating but I wouldn't risk running an electric fan because when it does get warm I don't think there is any electric fan that can pull th cfm that the stock fan does.
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