BPD oil cooler with plow
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Laughing Gas
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BPD oil cooler with plow
Can you guys that plow and have a BPD oil cooler help me out with some advice. Our 2005 excursion I use for everything plowing towing and family traveling gets oil temps up to 230 when I have to drive with the plow on. the coolant temps get to 212 before the fan kicks in. I have read about the fan clutch for plowing and am wondering if this is the best option or should we add a fan we can just turn on with a toggle switch. Thanks for the advice
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Just a thought. What about a little 6 or 8 inch electric fan, or two, mounted to the BPD radiator. You could wire these up to switches and kick them on when needed. You could use a variable switch Hi Med Low Off, or a thermostat that kicks on when the probe you put in the rad reaches a certain temp. Or a combo of both, thermostat with a Hi override.
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Just a thought. What about a little 6 or 8 inch electric fan, or two, mounted to the BPD radiator. You could wire these up to switches and kick them on when needed. You could use a variable switch Hi Med Low Off, or a thermostat that kicks on when the probe you put in the rad reaches a certain temp. Or a combo of both, thermostat with a Hi override.
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Laughing Gas
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I Have the air to oil cooler mounted in front of the radiator. When the fan kicks on it eventually cools down. Im sure if I was able to turn the fan on it would work. My question is has anyone used the clutch fan for plow package or installed a separate fan just for plowing. just wondering what works best for this situation. If the heavy duty clutch fan/plow package fan does the trick I would prefer that. If a remote fan works better with the air to oil cooler that I'll do that. Wiring the current fan to go on full when needed I guess could work it does drop the coolant temps very fast the oil temp starts to drop some but the fan kicks off before it gets low enough for my liking. just wondering what everybody else has done.
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Even setting up the override to test if more fan action would help might be a good step to try. If he finds that the temp drops
in the way he needs it to I would think that the plow fan clutch would do the trick. After all it is designed to move more air
when the plow is blocking a lot of the airflow when driving.
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I was thinking that last night before going to bed and some how the post I had all ready with the diagrams went POOF.
Even setting up the override to test if more fan action would help might be a good step to try. If he finds that the temp drops
in the way he needs it to I would think that the plow fan clutch would do the trick. After all it is designed to move more air
when the plow is blocking a lot of the airflow when driving.
Even setting up the override to test if more fan action would help might be a good step to try. If he finds that the temp drops
in the way he needs it to I would think that the plow fan clutch would do the trick. After all it is designed to move more air
when the plow is blocking a lot of the airflow when driving.
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