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Please share part of the secret of your record breaking time ... Mike |
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Hi Mike. Dave will know for sure as we did a fan together a few meets ago now, time was i think from removing the bumper, slam panel, fan, refitting another and put it all back together around 2 hrs so removing the fan is easy to do in an hour. ;) https://i.imgur.com/y3DBlSml.jpg1 https://i.imgur.com/4UJpEFEl.jpg2 Bumper removed as above now the slam panel with lights attached, take note of those two torx that are a nightmare. https://i.imgur.com/OL2e1qml.jpg3 I doubt these would ever more unless you drilled then out. https://i.imgur.com/Db0Na92l.jpg4 https://i.imgur.com/1sXq39yl.jpg5 Slam panel off take note where the two torx where holding the slam panel to the rubber grommets. https://i.imgur.com/Gxt5J5Ml.jpg6 Nibble around the A/C joints. https://i.imgur.com/yxHCGTDl.jpg7 https://i.imgur.com/kOLXaNEl.jpg8 lifting the cowling from the radiator. https://i.imgur.com/mjBnXFHl.jpg9 https://i.imgur.com/hAV2rn5l.jpg10 Fan is off the car, ready to be changed or to remove the lid off the motor and replace the brushes. https://i.imgur.com/dKiKOlQl.jpg11 New fan fitted after messing around with the old fan for 20 minutes or more. https://i.imgur.com/vYqrengl.jpg12 There was a lot of spurious wiring on the slam panel & on this car, before it could be put back together. https://i.imgur.com/RSXXstCl.jpg13 https://i.imgur.com/gXfUktLl.jpg14 The lights had been tampered with. https://i.imgur.com/cD8hWqal.jpg15 https://i.imgur.com/EbW5Vj0l.jpg16 So this took longer than usual :} https://i.imgur.com/nu5qQaHl.jpg17 If the wiring had needed to be sorted out then front would have been back on by 11.10am at the latest. This is what the fan motor looked like, you can already tell its been burnt out. https://i.imgur.com/QOnjI5Ql.jpg18 https://i.imgur.com/nN9CChrl.jpg19 https://i.imgur.com/wEf7XOHl.jpg20 The motor is burned https://i.imgur.com/3QRumRvl.jpg21 Wiring burnt through. https://i.imgur.com/SlCTKb8l.jpg22 Coils burned. https://i.imgur.com/jJqJRi6l.jpg23 This was only good for spare such as the wring loom, control box and PCB. https://i.imgur.com/3TlyggQl.jpg24 https://i.imgur.com/XWC3kXDl.jpg25 I find it always best to remove the fan altogether it saves time in the long run. ;) |
Thanks Steve, yes I remember Dave mentioning your record time. Best I've achieved is 3.5 hrs with an assistant. Hopefully the OP will say that it took him 2 hrs plus just to get the fan out:}
Doing another one on Tuesday, and have advised the owner that it can take about 5 hrs - always like to prepare owners with some margin and then sometimes the headlights need a polish too. Dave mentioned he had some sort of work around for those pesky torx, will be interesting to hear his words of wisdom. Keep well |
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I have it up on the work around in the post above with the photo, you leave the torx in place and pull the slam panel off the rubber connections, leaving the plastic sections attached to the slam panel. Then the trick is to trim down the rubber connections, add some rubber grease or vaseline to them then when you come to re-fit the slam panel it will push back on nicely ;) |
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ps Forgot to ask how long it took, please don't say an hour as suggested by Arctic, as I never manage anywhere near his time.[/QUOTE]
Probably spent 6 or 7 hours on the job so far including sourcing a 15mm thin-walled socket. Just on the soldering now! Malc |
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Probably spent 6 or 7 hours on the job so far including sourcing a 15mm thin-walled socket. Just on the soldering now! Malc[/QUOTE] Nice to hear that I'm not the only one who can't match Arctic's work:} |
ive done about 3 of these fans but two of the 3 had badly worn copper commutators.
At one point i did a bit of research into alternative fan motor as the cost of the original Seimens ones were crazy expensive. Did find that a chevy model used the exact same fan motor with the same fan attachment on the shaft but half the price. |
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Surprisingly, USA parts are easier to source in Sweden than Rover ones. Keep well ps. I've got a Chevy S10 outside, must remember to check:} |
Just in case I have to come this way at some time in the future, I've bought a slack handful of HEX HEAD set screws for the re-assembly.
And here's today's tip - one of the torx heads I had to grind off was one connecting the slam panel to the wing. So thinking this was fairly important I didn't want to try drilling it out and ruining the thread but there was just enough thread sticking out underneath to get locknuts on, so I was able to turn it out that way.:} |
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