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Today I decided to recharge the AC and after I tried it out I remembered that one of the fans was screaming like a mouse having it's balls stepped on. It was really bad, women were grabbing their kids and hiding. It had been intermittent in the past, but now it's unbearable. I had picked up a coupled of used stock fans last year but wasn't that motivated to tackle the project, particularly if the clam had to be removed. I narrowed it down to the passenger fan. Since I had old fans, I was able to determine that the fan is held by two studs to the radiator. I could get the front one easily enough, but the back one was another story. I had about given up working from the front and twisting my hand, arm and every other body part to no avail to get at the back nut. I decided to look under the front louvers at the top of the radiator. I poked a soft wire through the rubber (foam) on the top to see where it came out. Wow, right at the top of the fan. I pulled the foam back carefully and was able to see the top stud and nut. I proceeded to remove both nuts with a 10 mm wrench. The front one was easy but the back one only allowed short turns. After I got the nuts off I thought the fan would drop down in the front intake. I was thinking the hole in the brackets were slotted. No such luck. But at least the fan was loosed and wiggled some. I took a Dremel tool and notched the front bracket to allow the stud to drop down and I was able to pulled the fan free. Replaced fan by fitting the back stud in the hole and swinging the front into the notch. I tried to wire it from the front but gave up and pulled the wire up top with string and connected them with waterproof connectors. I would expect the the driver's side is the same but I did not check. It wasn't hard but really tedious due to tight quarters.
Now I can actually hear the stage 2 exhaust with out the fan drowning it out. And I didn't have to remove the clam.
Today I decided to recharge the AC and after I tried it out I remembered that one of the fans was screaming like a mouse having it's balls stepped on. It was really bad, women were grabbing their kids and hiding. It had been intermittent in the past, but now it's unbearable. I had picked up a coupled of used stock fans last year but wasn't that motivated to tackle the project, particularly if the clam had to be removed. I narrowed it down to the passenger fan. Since I had old fans, I was able to determine that the fan is held by two studs to the radiator. I could get the front one easily enough, but the back one was another story. I had about given up working from the front and twisting my hand, arm and every other body part to no avail to get at the back nut. I decided to look under the front louvers at the top of the radiator. I poked a soft wire through the rubber (foam) on the top to see where it came out. Wow, right at the top of the fan. I pulled the foam back carefully and was able to see the top stud and nut. I proceeded to remove both nuts with a 10 mm wrench. The front one was easy but the back one only allowed short turns. After I got the nuts off I thought the fan would drop down in the front intake. I was thinking the hole in the brackets were slotted. No such luck. But at least the fan was loosed and wiggled some. I took a Dremel tool and notched the front bracket to allow the stud to drop down and I was able to pulled the fan free. Replaced fan by fitting the back stud in the hole and swinging the front into the notch. I tried to wire it from the front but gave up and pulled the wire up top with string and connected them with waterproof connectors. I would expect the the driver's side is the same but I did not check. It wasn't hard but really tedious due to tight quarters.
Now I can actually hear the stage 2 exhaust with out the fan drowning it out. And I didn't have to remove the clam.
