I just offered my thoughts on how I did it......I will agree their kits are more elaborate but I didn't need that. Why have a automatic switch for A/C and a temp sensor when you can turn them on whenever you want.

To each his own.......BTW.....it cost me $7.00 to wire it up.

--Joe

 

Thanks Joe, we need more people like you.

Tim

 

hope you didn't take it the wrong way, i didn't mean it like, i'm just saying i would drather have it the other way.

 

Soap only needs to add 1 extra wire to his relay for the AC to make it work but like he said, not to his needs but........

There is a digital 2 1/16 gauge that you can turn on/off your fan (or water pump if need be etc) at whatever temps you want it to right from the gauge. Just figured some might be interested. OH, it's in the Summit catalog. Fan and a gauge will still be only in the $220.ish area. For those who do not know how to wire things up, you got the forum for help. You can even set most of these fans to run in 2 speeds, some apps it's not necessary for the fan to run full speed, unless AC is on etc............

 

See

https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...5&pagenumber=1

I have run it for about 6 months now with absolutly no down sides. I run the fan on low speed at all times. One the outside air temps get above 90 or so I hook up the high speed circuit the cycles on with the air compressor. $100 is plenty. Every junkyard seems to have 5 of them

Hope this helps

 

Just curious. How do you know when you want to turn on your fan since the temp gauge in our trucks won't go past the 1/2 point no matter how hot they get? Personally I would worry about the 1 time you forget to turn on the fan and fry your motor (or at least get it way hotter than it should get).

 

I installed the fan w/ water pump for around $200. Got the fan and waterpump on the deal, bought the Painless Wiring fan install kit and added a switch and 30 amp relay to the parts mix. Fabbed brackets for the fan from some scrap 1" x 3/16 aluminim flat stock and installed it in the factory shroud. Mounted the temp sensor (185* on 170* off) that came with the Painless kit in a hole I tapped into the side of the thermostat housing. The relays and circut breakers are all mouted under the plastic cover that covers the starter solinoid on the passengert side on the firewall. Longest wire run is the two + wires that run up to the fan and they are right at 4ft in length and covered in factory style wire loom. I wired the system so that the low speed fan comes on whenever the A/C cycling switch grounds (8" from relay) and the high speed fan kicks on if the temp sensor in the thermostat housing grounds (twice so far in 1 month testing with temps reaching 93 degrees). The switch I installed runs the high speed fan for staging lane cool downs and can dramatically drop engine temp in 10 minutes time. (I run the fan for a couple minutes then start the truck for 20 seconds to circulate the cool water back through the motor, then repeat).

Total time for fabrication and water pump install was around 6 hours, if I had to do it aging I could cut that time in half and could knock the parts price down a bit also.

There is nothing wrong with purchasing a preformed kit to install, the ones I have seen out there look great. For me though this truck is my hobby and I enjoy building things and fabricating parts for it, that is why I chose to build my own.

 

Well lets put it this way.......If I am going city driving and it is warm out then I turn it on when I start the truck. If I am going to be on the freeway and it is cool out I dont turn it on. Really simple actually.

--Joe

 

NICE!
That's just the information I was looking for.

Thanks!

 

Upping for anybody else intrested.

Thanks Joe

BTW-Sweet Truck

 

jegs fan info

 

Good posts should die!
(doing this tomorrow and wanted to bring back to life for other newbies)

 

Freudian slip

--Joe

 

I got my fan out of a newer t-bird with the 4.6 . No need to make brackets, just get some long bolts and a bunch of bigger nuts. Put the equal amount of nuts in between the fan and your original shroud. I wired it up with just a toggle switch, a monster fuse and 12 guage wire. I havent had any problems with it even with the a/c on. All I paid was like $70.

 

WTF!! i just checked fordpartsonline.com and they now want ~$175 for an eectric fan off a 4.6 'stang. they were $130 IN MAY!!!

does anyone have another source for the oem fan because i am putting together my own e-fan kit, and had it all figured out untill they bumped the price up for the fan