Land Rover Defender 110 Rebuild

[excossack]

It must be a lot easier to do the belt with nothing around the engine than trying to do it with the other stuff in place!

 

[migmag]

Kim have you thought about ditching the viscous and running an electric fan on a thermo switch???
Would release a few pony's and let the motor rev up faster???

 

[balmerchris]

Kim you got an honourable mention on the latest funroverdotcom video on YouTube for your masking tape and hammer tip. This thread is gonna make you famous!

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Kim have you thought about ditching the viscous and running an electric fan on a thermo switch???
Would release a few pony's and let the motor rev up faster???

I second that, leccy fan is the way to go, plus you put an override switch in to stop of flinging water around the engine bay whilst wading

 

[KimB]

It must be a lot easier to do the belt with nothing around the engine than trying to do it with the other stuff in place!

Oh indeed, I'd never have been able to fit the belt with the fan on, it took two of us, it's so tight.

Kim have you thought about ditching the viscous and running an electric fan on a thermo switch???
Would release a few pony's and let the motor rev up faster???

I had a thought about it but just assumed it's good from factory and on my partners so why can't it stay good now ?

Kim you got an honourable mention on the latest funroverdotcom video on YouTube for your masking tape and hammer tip. This thread is gonna make you famous!

Ben actually messaged me on here , we had a chat. His landrover will be amazing i'm sure

I second that, leccy fan is the way to go, plus you put an override switch in to stop of flinging water around the engine bay whilst wading

This is a good idea. I'll leave it standard for now I think and maybe once it's on the road and all sorted maybe i'll fit a big radiator and intercooler with electric fans, that'd probably improve power allot. Also would it be like loosing a flywheel weight taking it off ?

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Oh indeed, I'd never have been able to fit the belt with the fan on, it took two of us, it's so tight.

I had a thought about it but just assumed it's good from factory and on my partners so why can't it stay good now ?

Ben actually messaged me on here , we had a chat. His landrover will be amazing i'm sure

This is a good idea. I'll leave it standard for now I think and maybe once it's on the road and all sorted maybe i'll fit a big radiator and intercooler with electric fans, that'd probably improve power allot. Also would it be like loosing a flywheel weight taking it off ?

Not at all, you lose fly wheel weight and you have to rev the beans out of it to keep momentum up, take the fan off it'll Rev a little freer as there is less drag, less drag on the motor = less power needed=less fuel used

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I've just removed the viscous from my 300tdi disco and fitted an El cheapo fan

 

[The Devils Reject]

I've just removed the viscous from my 300tdi disco and fitted an El cheapo fan

No room on my 109 for a viscous fan so it was an ebay special for about £14 quid. As well as the increase in power you also get a quicker warm up as the fan only kicks in once things are warm enough. X-Eng used to make an in-line housing to fit a thermostatic fan switch - the company now sell to someone else but I'm stuffed if I can remember who.

 

[mtt.tr]

Thought my partner was a one of a kind that's two females that don't use the. "I'm a girl" Though I think most people or age (22) boys and girls take that approach.

Lovely work well done impressive. . Where in the country are you based.

 

[KimB]

Damn it, you guys are making me want to get electric now. Wish I never bought the new fan that's on now

Thought my partner was a one of a kind that's two females that don't use the. "I'm a girl" Though I think most people or age (22) boys and girls take that approach.

Lovely work well done impressive. . Where in the country are you based.

I've got some girlfriends that are like me. But thanks for the compliments and I'm from Hertfordshire

 

[mtt.tr]

The guy I work with has 300tdi without a fan and the needle never moves. I've got a 200di without fan it also stays cold

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Without reading back through, you're running a td5 right? I think they do run a little hotter than a tdi, so you deffo need some sort of fan, but yeah , leccy is the way to go!

 

[Tinbasherdan]

As an aside I also feel we should have a forum landy get together!

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I didn't do it for the fuel savings tbh, or revving up a little freer, I just didn't want water throwing itself all over the engine bay when wading

 

[stormin]

I didn't do it for the fuel savings tbh, or revving up a little freer, I just didn't want water throwing itself all over the engine bay when wading

Not too much of a problem for a diesel, not so good for a V8 where the fire goes out at the slightest sniff of damp.

 

[mtt.tr]

Not too much of a problem for a diesel, not so good for a V8 where the fire goes out at the slightest sniff of damp.

Or 2.25 petrol fortunately had enough cranking power to drive out the flood. Does that make it a hybrid?

 

[mtt.tr]

When I washed my 2.25 petrol series 3 t'other day I thought the engine looked a bit mucky too so gave it a good hosing for a few minutes, while running.

Squirted all the dirty dusty goop off the distributor, coil, leads and plug caps.

Steam everywhere from the exhaust manifold, didn't miss a beat - just like it didn't during the 'apocalyptic' flooding a couple of years back...

Lucky *******. Mine was fine up untill that point maybe it thought I needed to get out and have a wash. Brains beat the Landy.

 

[migmag]

Oh indeed, I'd never have been able to fit the belt with the fan on, it took two of us, it's so tight.

I had a thought about it but just assumed it's good from factory and on my partners so why can't it stay good now ?

Ben actually messaged me on here , we had a chat. His landrover will be amazing i'm sure

This is a good idea. I'll leave it standard for now I think and maybe once it's on the road and all sorted maybe i'll fit a big radiator and intercooler with electric fans, that'd probably improve power allot. Also would it be like loosing a flywheel weight taking it off ?

Any car I've had and kept that's had a viscous I've chopped it off and fitted an electric fan kit,
They rev up so much faster lag feels reduced mpg up and it tidies up the bay.
As well as when switched is more controllable off road..

 

[mtt.tr]

Any car I've had and kept that's had a viscous I've chopped it off and fitted an electric fan kit,
They rev up so much faster lag feels reduced mpg up and it tidies up the bay.
As well as when switched is more controllable off road..

I viscous fan though should have almost no resistance on the blades so a cold engine should rev up fast enough.

 

[Pete.]

Anyway, an electric fan uses more or less the same energy to shift the same amount of air - that energy is still taken from the engine, just via a different (and arguably less efficient) route. Yes, ok, fan blade design makes a little difference, but really, not much...

I wouldn't call an electric fan less efficient. It only comes on when needed whereas the viscous fan reacts to the heat coming off the rad. You can have the coupling subjected to hot air even if the system is coping with it with no fan assist.