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Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 8:01 pm
by jack_seal
Bought a vitara engine the other week, (new to suzukis) when I picked it up it was still sat in the vitara. Only realised yesterday all the other ones I see don't have viscus fans on and mine does? Should I be worried?
Cheers
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2016 11:55 pm
by Jordi
Depends what kind of vitara engine.
My 8v 1.6 is on a viscous fan.
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:17 am
by twiss
Probably was retrofitted with an electric fan. Personally I would have removed the stock fan and put electric ones on, better for wading and might save yourself half a horsepower
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:18 am
by twiss
Also, there is no need to post the same thing 3 times
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 5:28 pm
by jack_seal
Did it post 3 times? Only once to me. My bad.. So viscus fan is alright then I don't need to worry that it's not a vitara engine.
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 6:59 pm
by twiss
You just want to check the viscous fan's clutch to make sure it locks when it heats up, otherwise you wont get enough cooling
Roll up a newspaper and poke it (carefully) into the spinning fan with the engine at operating temperature... if you can stop the fan with the newspaper, the fan clutch is broken
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 7:52 pm
by Rhinoman
Mine had a viscous fan from new (2000).
Re: Viscus fan on vit engine?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:59 pm
by ianedwards
Mine had a viscous fan on it, but removed it and installed a electric one.