Got the Taurus fan installed...

Tylar and I installed the Taurus fan in the '72 daily beater last night. I'm not sure, I think we may be the first ones to install one with an 6 cylinder? Needless to say, the clearence between the water pump and fan motor is extremely tight. It didn't fit at all to begin with. I noticed that the fan motor was bolted to the back side of the shroud, and there was plenty of room between the blade and radiator to bolt it on the inside of the shroud instead. That gave just enough clearence to work. As for the wiring, I already head an aftermarket electric fan on the car that bit the dust recently. I used the one relay that was already there from that fan (the black one) and used it to run the low side of the fan. Since the Taurus fan is two speed, I installed another 75 amp Denso relay to run the high side. I also ran new 10 gauge power wires and ground wire. I could have took the time to make the wiring a lot prettier, but this thing is just a beater, form follows function.

I plan to get a thermostatic switch to turn it off and on automatically, but for now it is still turned on and off manually via the illuminated switch I have mounted on the package tray. That switch was originally out of my '69 F100 Ranger XLT, and was used to operate a cargo light on the back of the cab. I added the black toggle switch to switch between low and high speed.

The 90 amp Chevy alternator I've been running for a while seems to be keeping up alright, but I notice if I rev it fast with the fan on high, the belt squeals a little. I'll probably upgrade to a 3G soon.

It works great... it's a '71 200 with a almost new 2 core radiator. The low speed is more then sufficent enough just doing average around town driving. It holds at 180 sitting still idling with it on low. On high, it quickly drops to around 160...

Big thanks goes out to Frank (71gold) for the fan!

 

Jamie

Did you space the fan motor inward ( toward radiator ) ?
Did you trim the shroud ?

Sound like you are happy with the fan

Jay

 

I took the blade off, unbolted the fan motor from the back side of the shroud, stuck it on the front side and bolted it back on. I had to trim a little for the electrical connector to clear on the inside, and use longer screws to screw the motor back to the shroud. Other then that, it's unmodified. I put foam tape all the way around where the shroud comes into contact with the radiator. The foam tape spaced it off enough where I felt comfortable that the blade wouldn't come in contact with the radiator. The right side is bolted on, the left side didn't have enough of a lip to it, so I drilled a couple of holes and used some zip ties, which seem to hold it very well. The entire fan assembly is mounted upside down from the way it was in the Taurus.

 

Here are 2 more pics of the mods we had to do to make it fit:

 

That was pretty brilliant, man. I had all kinds of trouble making the Taurus fan fit with my thick aluminum radiator. Ended up using an Escort fan instead. (Not much different, same fan, thinner shroud, single speed motor.) If I'd thought of this I would have done it.

 

hey facelessnumber ,i used a 2000 escort fan also with A/C and it was a two speed fan ,just like the taurus except off set for my electric water pump,fan is more towards the drivers side of the rad instead of the center . I hooked up low speed to the thermostate and high speed to a toggle switch ,it works great.

 

Don't know, maybe it is a 2-speed motor then... Don't remember. I only used one of course, hooked up to a thermostatic switch. I do remember it being extremely similar to the Taurus fan, but that offset is the only reason it fit, and it did fit nicely. Been pretty happy with it.

 

Pretty clever!! I have one of those sitting in the pile of parts for the Comet.

 

how do you keep both low/high from being on at the same time...on a Taurus two speed fan it will ...burn out the motor....don't ask me how i know...

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I thought about hooking mine up eventually with 2 thermo switches and 2 relays. Cant decide if it would be worth it or not though.

 

Thanks for posting this. I'll be doing this someday.

 

Looks great! Thanks for posting this.

There's several cheap relay setups if you search "taurus fan relay" that look good.

for example:

http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=99700

 

i have one put back and already installed on a radiator. i plan to run it on my '71 when i swap to EFI soon looks good Jamie!

 

Any old 4 or 5-pin relay rated around 30 amps will do. I think mine is a GM fuel pump relay...

 

I don't know enough about relays, so asking this question ... is there a relay for the low speed that could also be switched back off by power from the high speed toggle switch? ... that would do it, if they exist ...

Thinking about doing the fan myself ... been very interested in all the posts on it.