Fan tried to exit through the hood-need a part!
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Hey MT - nice looking work.
Thanks for the quick responses. My rig, while a valuable member of the family since new, is now mostly a weekend play toy.
I may take the path of least resistance and ask a friend, who is a former Toyota service tech, to step in here. I hate to call on him so much, but there is probably an easy workaround to the SST's and procedures called for in the service manual.
Thanks again for your help and your offer of hoses. I may need to call on you for the rubber hoses which I see in your first pic.
If you have a moment, tell me how you inserted pics into your posts.
Sincerely,
Dafried
Thanks for the quick responses. My rig, while a valuable member of the family since new, is now mostly a weekend play toy.
I may take the path of least resistance and ask a friend, who is a former Toyota service tech, to step in here. I hate to call on him so much, but there is probably an easy workaround to the SST's and procedures called for in the service manual.
Thanks again for your help and your offer of hoses. I may need to call on you for the rubber hoses which I see in your first pic.
If you have a moment, tell me how you inserted pics into your posts.
Sincerely,
Dafried
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I first upload them to webshots here:
http://community.webshots.com/commun...host=community
Then you can link directly to them by cutting and pasting the link into a post. They have 5 different sizes to choose from:
100:
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425:
500:
And 600:
If you click on any of the pics it takes you to the webshots album and you can enlarge it to full size.
http://community.webshots.com/commun...host=community
Then you can link directly to them by cutting and pasting the link into a post. They have 5 different sizes to choose from:
100:
200:
425:
500:
And 600:
If you click on any of the pics it takes you to the webshots album and you can enlarge it to full size.
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Yeah the power pretty much goes to hell up there. That's one reason I added a supercharger. That cable was just sitting up there, I don't know anything about it.
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Oh, it looked like it was wrapped around your bumper, but I looked a little closer, and I saw it wasn't. Maybe someone brought that up there as a memorial for a friend who parked up there, and their parking brake failed...
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No, it was wired correctly. I would leave the ignition switched on sometimes to pull air through and cool it after a little bit of wheeling. It was very obviously sucking air through the radiator - just not enough air. I've learned since then that lots of folks have trouble with electric fans not cooling well enough. I guess all the money and engineering that Toyota puts into cooling systems shouldn't be tinkered with.
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I had a Flex A Lite Black Magic fan on my truck for a couple of years. Never cooled as well as the factory fan and I always overheated when wheeling. Reverted back to the factory fan and everything was perfect again. See my story on that here: https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f105...x-165-a-63155/
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Don't think they had the Extreme when I was using my fan. This was the standard Black Magic by Flex-A-Lite. I bought it in 1999 and dumped it in 2002. Unrelated to Toyotas my cousin has a shop that repairs and hot rods a lot of classic and late model cars (Mustang, Camaro, etc). He's the one that told me to remove the electric fans. Every customer he has with cooling problems that's the first thing he does is chuck the electric fans.
So I did that and it solved my problem. Luckily I'd hung on to my factory fan and shroud. As always, your experience may be different but this is what worked for me.
So I did that and it solved my problem. Luckily I'd hung on to my factory fan and shroud. As always, your experience may be different but this is what worked for me.
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Don't think they had the Extreme when I was using my fan. This was the standard Black Magic by Flex-A-Lite. I bought it in 1999 and dumped it in 2002. Unrelated to Toyotas my cousin has a shop that repairs and hot rods a lot of classic and late model cars (Mustang, Camaro, etc). He's the one that told me to remove the electric fans. Every customer he has with cooling problems that's the first thing he does is chuck the electric fans.
So I did that and it solved my problem. Luckily I'd hung on to my factory fan and shroud. As always, your experience may be different but this is what worked for me.
So I did that and it solved my problem. Luckily I'd hung on to my factory fan and shroud. As always, your experience may be different but this is what worked for me.
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That's great that it's working OK for you because there are some benefits to an electric fan like the HP gain. I wish my experience had been better. I do know of several others that had trouble with the first Black Magic fans so I don't believe I'm an exception. Sounds like they redesigned them which is good because I think it needed to happen. I would for sure stay away from the one I was using.
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Big bang and screetching metal on metal sound?
I have a 94 4Runnner. Today O was urning around on a logging road in the Idaho wilderness. After backing up in a turn around I pulled forward intending to then back up. As I pulled forward a loud 'BANG' followed by screeching metal on metal.
The motor running fine, transmission working I backed up and drove back to camp about two miles. It did not overheat, oil pressure fine but the power steering was gone.
Got to camp looked under the hood to see the fan assembly separated from the motor. All the belts were in tact. What happened? Can anybody tell me what broke. Was it the bracket or something else.
The motor running fine, transmission working I backed up and drove back to camp about two miles. It did not overheat, oil pressure fine but the power steering was gone.
Got to camp looked under the hood to see the fan assembly separated from the motor. All the belts were in tact. What happened? Can anybody tell me what broke. Was it the bracket or something else.
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Thank you for responding!
Ok It is still at the camp. Bad weather forced us to go home in the boat. I will have to take the radiator out to see anything. When I look at it the fan and clutch assembly rests on the lower pulley. Belts are hanging freely and I can pick up the fan. It is completely separated from the motor. Cannot get it out of the cavity because something from the motor stops it. I assume it is the shaft. So when I go back out I will take pictures and get the thing out so I can see it.
The road I was on has enormous logging trucks running on it occasionally so it was not safe to leave it on the road. Since it was running fine I decided to look when I got to camp.
Ok It is still at the camp. Bad weather forced us to go home in the boat. I will have to take the radiator out to see anything. When I look at it the fan and clutch assembly rests on the lower pulley. Belts are hanging freely and I can pick up the fan. It is completely separated from the motor. Cannot get it out of the cavity because something from the motor stops it. I assume it is the shaft. So when I go back out I will take pictures and get the thing out so I can see it.
The road I was on has enormous logging trucks running on it occasionally so it was not safe to leave it on the road. Since it was running fine I decided to look when I got to camp.
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