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Okay, this is uh part one of a two-part
uh video. This is removing the AC
condenser fan in this 2004 Dodge Ram.
Same as any O2 to08. Uh this is one of
those jobs that is a whole lot easier
once you know how to do it. Tools you'll
need for this are a 10 mm and a 13 mm
socket with a ratchet and extension, a
tool able to cut plastic because as you
can see Chrysler didn't exactly uh
design this to be replaced easily. Uh a
flatb blade screwdriver and a Phillips
screwdriver.
You want to start by uh removing your
battery. Actually, you can see we've
already disconnected the negative cable
and now we're using our 10 mm wrench.
And we did that with a 10 mm socket and
ratchet as well. uh loosening up the
positive cable with our 10 mm socket and
ratchet. And then carefully, cuz you
don't want to touch that screwdriver to
anything else, you want to carefully pry
off the positive battery cable.
And now I'm going to fast forward a
little bit, but there's a 10 mm bolt um
basically the middle bottom of the
battery that holds the battery clamp
down. And you want to remove that. Um,
as you remove it, uh, the bolt that's at
the bottom can slip. And if you have to,
you can grab that with a wrench at the
bottom as well.
And now you're going to use your 10 mm
socket wrench again and unbolt the
negative ground cable from the fender.
And I just put that bolt back in the
fender for safekeeping.
Okay. Now, you want to pull the battery
towards the fender a little bit. Then
there's a basically a block. It's a
little bracket that holds the uh battery
in. And then you can lift the battery
battery out and store it on a piece of
wood. Do not store it on uh the concrete
floor.
Next, you're going to want to remove
your well, not remove, but get your fuse
relay center out of the way. There's a
13 millimeter bolt there. And then
there's a little clip that has a
Phillips head pin in it that you just
kind of undo
the pin
and pull the pin head up and out.
And then this lifts up.
Okay. And the clip comes out. Okay. Fast
forward through removing that 13 mm
bolt.
Okay. And then this relay center slides
towards the engine and then it pops out.
Then you can kind of take it and move it
over to where your battery was. Okay.
So, you can see I've used some uh
plastic wire ties and just kind of tied
this up and out of the way. Not too
tight because I want to be able to flex
these wires around a little bit. Now I'm
going to remove four 10 mm bolts. Two
that hold uh the AC fan here. And then
this one here that holds the radiator
shroud. And all the way on the other
side, there's another one here that
holds the radiator shroud as well. You
want to release um there's two pins, one
here and one uh way down here.
Just use a regular screwdriver
and pry those out.
And then after you pry them some,
usually just grab onto them,
work them back and forth and out. 10 mm
socket with a small extension. And you
can use a ratchet. Obviously, I'm using
an air ratchet just for a little bit of
quickness.
Okay. And I'll do a little fast
forwarding again, too, as I remove those
four uh bolts. And as you as I remove
the last one, the radiator, you can see
the radiator kind of flex down.
Now, you're just going to want to kind
of lift up your radiator, push it back a
little bit, give it a little room to
move around the AC condenser and fan.
What you want to do is remove your uh AC
line from these clips here
and then also from one way over here on
the passenger side.
Okay, that allows your line to go up. So
now you can kind of lift up and move
around your condenser and fan assembly.
There are four bolts that hold the
condenser into the fan assembly. They're
10 mm. One's there. One is further down
there. You can just kind of lift the
um let me see. There you go. Lift it up
and get a better view. And then there's
also two on this side. One there and one
way further down
right there. Um, you can either reach
that by reaching down there or actually
from the bottom as well. And I've got my
10 mm socket with my ratchet, no
extension this time.
And a little fast forward again as I
take these bolts out. And you can see I
just lift up the condenser and fan
assembly just so I can get the bolts and
get everything out and everything.
Okay, so you can see with the trout
pulled up. Okay, our um condenser now is
loose. But Chrysler for some reason
designed this so that you
the right way to do it, I guess, is to
disconnect this line. But you can't do
that because that depressurizes your AC.
Uh it's illegal cuz you can't let the
gases go in the air and then you'd have
to get your AC system recharged. So what
you want to do is either break or cut uh
this
basically this piece right here so that
then you can get the um condenser out.
Okay. How you do this depends on the
tools you have. I've got these snips.
Okay. Goes right through the plastic.
Pretty easy. Be careful not to damage
your condenser at all.
Okay. Now we're basically ready to pull
it out. And we've got a few things here.
We've got this arm that comes off the
battery. Make sure that we get the fan
up and over it first. Um, and then, uh,
this comes apart. You have to slide the
condenser over and pull the fan out. So,
try and show you that as best I can
here.
So, we want to bring our condenser and
fan assembly up
so it's basically on top of that arm.
Okay. And now pull
the condenser gently
out of
the fan assembly here.
Okay,
let me
slip down some.
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kind of try to practice this like three
times, but seems like every time it
comes off a little different.
Pull my
condenser leak forward here.
Try not to let the fan and the condenser
hit too much. So, you don't want to ruin
the fins.
See that little wire getting stuck here?
fan comes up.
Okay, here's the connector right here.
Use a screwdriver.
Undo it. The fan comes out.
Okay, here's my original fan, new fan
from one auto. You're going to want to
swap all your
grommets over
these. Just pull out
and push in.
Okay. And mostly it's the same. Um looks
like maybe this is a different design,
maybe a later or earlier design. I'll
see how that installs. Um but I am going
to cut uh this off right here so I can
get it around that hose.
Okay. And we're going to end that uh end
this one here for now. Um just check out
uh the part two to the same uh video to
see the reinstallation of the fan.
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