Thread: Fan Movement

Does anyone know where I can buy one of these in australia.?

Td5 / V8 Viscous Fan Spanner Set £14.00 - TOOLS - Spanners Flatdog UK

Can find the spanner but not the holding tool.

Cheers!

Unless some dork has used Loctite on the thread as with mine when I bought it causing 7 hours of struggle even with a holding tool, you should not really need a holding tool.
Usually a couple of sharp hits with a hammer on the spanner will loosen it. Remember" leftie loosie righty tighty."
You can also hold the pulley with a large screwdriver on the bolts.
Also put some anti seize on the thread when you put it back on, so that next time it will come off easily.
It will not unthread itself.
Regards Philip A

I am a great believer in epoxy metal for jobs like this.

My tandem trailer was loaded we were under a time constrants when I noticed a wheel bearing had badly worn the axle. I mean badly. Changing the axle was not an option at such short notice and so I packed another bearing on to the axle with expoxy metal and replaced the big washer and tightened up the nut forcing the epoxy in. I made sure no epoxy got into the bearing itself. I lined the wheel up with a straight edge on the rear wheel and a big square for the vertical. Sure I can never get the bearing or hub off again. But since that the trailer has done many thousands of kilometres carrying cars and other heavy loads and the wheel has no movement. I guess one day I will have to replace the axle and all, but it is still fine 5 years on. Every so often I check for wheel wobble but there is none so far.

I can't remember the exact steps to do the bearing, but I think the holding tool will be important to help remove the bearing.
Not so important to remove the fan off the spindle thread, unless as Philip said .. could be loctited.
I'd say better to have it than not.

Brother got his spanner set from Paddock Spares I think he said.
I think it took about a week for the delivery .. all up under $40.
Of their shipping is reasonably timely and priced .. just order it from Flatdog.
Good bit of kit too. same as brothers set.

Better than the dual open ended(32/36mm) spanner I got(Lazer style) .. but I don't have a TD5 and needed the 32mm end for the Tdi and the 36mm end for the V8.

My V8 viscous was loctited on, and the only way to remove the waterpump was to hack the fan blades off, which allowed access to the bolts blocked by the fan and pulley .. and the dumped the entire pump and viscous & hacked fan contraption ... and replaced the lot ... without the use of loctite!

It's pretty easy to make a holding tool with a bit of 25x25MM angle iron.
You make a small template of the bolt positions and drill holes in the angle iron, then cut off the angle to clear the pulley.
You then have to grind out a semi circle to clear the pulley.
Mine bent from being jammed against the chassis but that was with strong Loctite and it is still serviceable.
Regards Philip A

I had some flat bar to do same on my V8 viscous, and all I ended up doing was bending the spanner more open.
Not having another spanner, I didn't want to bend it open too much so the decision was made to cut the fan up(have spare .. etc).

So yeah, could make a holding tool with flat bar, or angle or whatever, but the flatdog kit seems cheap enough.

My wobbly fan was a result of the water pump.

It was leaking and the fan was all over the show.

Replaced the water pump.

Originally Posted by Andrew D

My wobbly fan was a result of the water pump.

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That would be normal in a V8, but the TD5's fan is a different setup.
It doesn't run on the waterpump shaft like the V8, it runs off a small stub on a bearing housed in the front timing case. Bearing has been known to spin within the timing case too.
The location of the waterpump is (what could be described as miles away) lower and sideways and further back in the engine.