kenlowe fan advice please

[MudRat]

Just bought a brand new kit for £50  :clap: but i have a small problem, the instructions say it needs to be mounted like so: rad, fan, motor, but i dont have enough room behind my front grill, so can i mount it behind my rad, essentially where the original viscous fan was, blowing air onto the rad from behind, rather than blowing onto the rad from the front?

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

can i mount it behind my rad, essentially where the original viscous fan was, blowing air onto the rad from behind, rather than blowing onto the rad from the front?

Sounds feasible - but it would need to be mounted to suck the air out otherwise the Kenlowe would be blowing hot air into the rad from behind and the wind would be blowing it back into the rad from the front.

My Disco has one behind the rad (as like your's, there's no room at the front) which sucks!

[trecfive]

Mount it on the rad in place of the viscous fan, then connect the wires up so the fan sucks instead of blowing(reverse the polarity)

[JIMBOBLY]

it would proberbly worth going on ebay and see if you could get a grill panel of a late 300tdi or td5,cause they had air con,the grill is much bigger to fit the aircon rad in,as you might know,then you would be able to put it at font or the back of the radiator :-k

[Range Rover Blues]

Some Kenlowe and Pacet fans are designed ot be either pullers or pushers, in which case fit it insode as a puller.  Otherwise youneed to fit the airconn grille as suggested.

If you fit a pusher inside the engine bay then what will happen is that the rad will work fine withou the fan but when things get a bit hot the electric fan will push the hot air back into the rad making things worse, even more so if the truck is moving as no air will flow through the rad at all.

[topless matt]

the instructions say it needs to be mounted like so: rad, fan, motor, but i dont have enough room behind my front grill, so can i mount it behind my rad, essentially where the original viscous fan was, blowing air onto the rad from behind, rather than blowing onto the rad from the front?

So you mean like the instructions say to mount it :lol: (behiend the rad)

[Saffy]

(reverse the polarity)

the fan blades will be then turning in the wrong direction for their design, inefficient and probably more noise.

Some of the aftermarket fans the blades can be removed and reversed dunno if kenlowe is such a beast. My TRIPAC fan from merlin motorsport is a gender bender like that, can suck and blow with a reverse of polarity after removing the fan blades and rotating it on the shaft.

By the way the Aircon panel idea will give a goodly amount of space, but not good if you got a non-aircon winch bumper :D Also those panels are made of fibreglass, not important just not many realise that. I had one fitted to mine for awhile for other reasons, prone to cracking at the bottom side mount points but easily re-enforced.

[zulublue]

Lee,

If the fan is supposed to be on the outside of the rad as a pusher then by putting it on the inside as a puller will do the same job, I used to run 2xHD Kenlowes on my V8 RRC but on the 200TDi Defender to be honest I don't use one, I have a manual override switch fitted to a Ford Mondeo fan which fits a treat, I have got an X-Eng thermostat switch on it but it has never come on (I do have this fitted after the rad) as I did not see any point of fitting it before the rad has done its work, I know the Kenlowe probe goes before but you should have a thermostat to control when it kicks in.

Anyhow as mentioned above, fit it to the inside, switch it on and if you don't have a gush of air heading towards the engine swap the + & - around.