Cooling electric fan ?
Cooling electric fan ?
Fleet Owner
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From: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
There are as many opinions about electric fans as there are owners----and very few of them in agreement with one another! 
I like the idea of them during winter mostly myself---but I've not yet installed one. In theory they'd allow the engine to warm up quicker.
Generally the stock fan clutches and blades provide more than enough cooling for normal operating conditions. For sheer reliability and freeing up funds for other improvements I'd keep the stock stuff.
See---told you different opinions from everyone!
BTW Flex-A-Lite is the name brand we all know but Hayden makes some great stuff too---a bit less spendy too!
I like the idea of them during winter mostly myself---but I've not yet installed one. In theory they'd allow the engine to warm up quicker.
Generally the stock fan clutches and blades provide more than enough cooling for normal operating conditions. For sheer reliability and freeing up funds for other improvements I'd keep the stock stuff.
See---told you different opinions from everyone!
BTW Flex-A-Lite is the name brand we all know but Hayden makes some great stuff too---a bit less spendy too!
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 21,253
Likes: 1,656
From: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
I also fell into spending the big bux for a Flex-A-Lite system but after a brief conversation with one of their application engineers and considering my E250 cargo van doesn't work hard enough to tax the cooling system I decided against the cost and installation woes I was sure to suffer.
If my clutch or blade ever acts up new OEM will be the only replacements I'll use--its the easier way and seems to work just fine for me.
I'd spend the money on a nice stereo myself!
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