I was pulling into my condo's garage today and thought I ran over something when I heard a quick pop or crack type sound as if running over a piece of wood or something. The car still ran fine but started making a racket, ticking like crazy. I actually thought I broke a belt or a pulley went or something. After taking off the supercharger belt and still hearing the noise, I started poking around and the noise really seemed like it was coming from the fan. It wasn't affected by engine RPM, and when pushing on the fan housing the sound would change tone as if affected by the pushing... so I pulled the fuse for it and sure enough, the noise went away. Plugged the fuse back in and sure enough it can back. It's definitely toast.
I found a thread talking about this model here as a replacement. Just curious if anyone has any experience with this model, or is it really worth another ~$180 to get the motorcraft one? Or maybe there is another one entirely that I should look at?
Also, it looks pretty easy to drop the fan assembly out bottom... is there anything in particular I should look out for when doing it?
I found a thread talking about this model here as a replacement. Just curious if anyone has any experience with this model, or is it really worth another ~$180 to get the motorcraft one? Or maybe there is another one entirely that I should look at?
Also, it looks pretty easy to drop the fan assembly out bottom... is there anything in particular I should look out for when doing it?
