G'day guys I just thought I'd do a quick video this time on thermo fans before I
get right into the lifted Range Rover and the mud tires so what we have here
is my Commodore ute it's a five litre for those of you not in Australia that's
cast iron motor in this ute 5 litre Holden motor and what I've recently done
is when I bought the ute it had this thermo fan attached to the radiator and
even in reasonably warm conditions for up here it did it pretty hard trying to
trying to cool the ute. Don't mind the zip tie there I hit a kangaroo in this
thing the other day. So what I've decided to do is I've gone and got
myself a Ford Falcon BF it's a BF 6 cylinder big single thermo fan
don't mind that up cut that off eventually - and I put an plug on it for
now I've got a lot of neatening up to do I've just finished it and taken it for
its first testing what I've done is with this fan instead of using the thermistor
controller that comes with it I've actually gone and got a Proform temp
controller and this is a variable speed controller, I've mounted it just here
again don't mind the mess I've got to tidy that up a bit more yet but what it comes
is it's got this temperature probe that just slips into the radiator or you can
put one into the head where your normal temp sensor goes I've just decided to
put it there for now and from factory it's set at 185 Fahrenheit which is a oh
don't quote me on this I think it's about 80 85 degrees Celsius so when I put it in I
played around with it I just set it initially at 150 just to see how it
would go and took it for a drive and yeah it kept the car cool no worries so
I thought okay we'll see how we go I've increased it up to 180 degrees so this
set is normally at 185 when this thing comes out so I've taken it down 180
degrees and that's about it's between a quarter and half on the gauge on this
thing and when you're running on the highway
this thing the fan doesn't run at all it sits at about a quarter on the gauge
normally just for an indication of how it goes so I've set the temperature
higher then what natural air flow when you're driving would be so that the fans
not running while you're driving but I'll tell you what I cannot express how
good this thing is this little Proform temp controller I'll put a picture up
it's just very it's just in there for now don't mind that I'm gonna neaten
that up but um yeah that that is the bomb right there what it does is it
being a variable speed controller it ramps the pump up slowly (ahh not a pump) the
fan up very slowly rather than just going on off on off on off all the time
and I've had to cut this fan to fit it in here I just have to cut the shroud a
little bit to make it fit a few little spots on either side down here because
you've got the inlet here but you've also got oil cooling and stuff like
that and I'd say well I can't be happy with this thing I just sat with this
thing idling in my driveway for about three-quarters of an hour playing with
the temperature to try and get it optimum and fantastic the fan is only
drawing about five amps to cool the car just sitting here I don't know what it's
drawing while it's driving when you know under load or anything like that but it
certainly has no problem cooling this this motor down ahh so yeah the next
step for me is I've got the exact same fan I've got another one here
and I'm going to put it into my Range Rover just thought I'd do a
quickie on that one and while i've got you here I'm gonna do a tyre
review on these KM3's, this is my spare obviously I'm gonna do a full
review on them very soon but I'll just show you where they're at now and that's
10,000 K's I put on them I have not rotated them yet I'm actually
planning to do that very soon you can see there's a couple of marks but here
that video is yet to come so bear with me guys but that is
just unreal that thing and anyone who ever plans on putting a thermo fan in a
car that originally had a mechanical fan, in Australia that Falcon fan I
think overseas you can get the Ford Mondeo ones they're pretty good
but that that's just unreal namely have you that that little fan
there couldn't keep it cool sitting at the traffic lights at full speed just on/off
it was wired up just when ignition was on that fan was running and this one
hardly runs it's drawing what yeah five amps is the most I've seen out of it
while running unreal I'm extremely pleased with that I reckon if you if you
got issues with your thermo fan and yeah you want to try and sort it out that's
the way to go I forgot to add to the ambient temperature here in Townsville
North Queensland 33 degrees at the moment Celsius just for those wondering
so it's a warm day it's not hot by our standards but like I said that fan had
no trouble cooling that car thanks for watching
you