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Originally posted by leathermang
If I needed air flow and had a big vehicle with room I would find a squirrel cage fan, make my own enclosed radiator and mount the fan high with a four inch tube from Home Depot going to the radiator. The type of aux fan on cars is of that type because of limited amount of room and need to not block ram air . You are watchin the temps... just fuse it and put an on/off switch for you to control.... a temp activated switch is just one more thing to go wrong when you least want it to.
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Thanks,
are you describing a seperate cooler plumbed into things? I dont know the term "squirrel cage fan" I'm assuming you mean the type whose fan is a drum with fins.
Space is a premium. To fit the 617 motor into the Unimog special adapters were made to tilt it 13 degrees to one side so it could be shoe horned in there.
If I do a typical infront of radiator aux. fan modification using MB or other parts, I will turn it off for water crossings. This is a very common mod. in the off-road world so history seems to show they do ok (some better than others) going thru water, just not turned on in the process.