How to Replace Radiator Fan Clutch 2006-10 Ford Explorer
Created on: 2017-06-06
How to remove a stuck or rusted radiator fan clutch nut on 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 Ford Explorer
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step 1 :Removing the Air Intake
- Disconnect the PCV and breather hose
- Loosen the two hose clamps with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the hoses
- Remove the air intake
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step 2 :Removing the Coolant Bottle and Power Steering Reservoir
- Remove the hose from the radiator fill
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the coolant bottle
- Remove the coolant bottle
- Remove the 8mm bolt from the power steering reservoir
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step 3 :Removing the Upper Radiator Fan Shroud
- Remove the 10mm bolt on either end of the radiator fan shroud
- Slide back the hose clamp
- Disconnect the coolant hose from the radiator
- Pull up and remove the fan shroud
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step 4 :Removing the Fan and Fan Clutch
- Disconnect the fan connector
- Remove the 8mm bolt from the fan sensor
- Move the sensor off to the side
- Hold the water pump pulley with a wrench
- Remove the 36mm nut from the fan clutch with a thin wrench and bar for leverage
- Spin the fan clutch off
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step 5 :Removing the Fan from the Fan Clutch
- Remove the four 10mm bolts from the fan
- Push the fan clutch out
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step 6 :Installing the Fan to the Fan Clutch
- Press the clutch into the fan
- Tighten the four 10mm bolts to the clutch
- Tighten the bolts to 62 inch-pounds
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step 7 :Installing the Fan and Fan Clutch
- Install the fan to the water pump shaft
- Hold the water pump pulley in place
- Tighten the nut with a 36mm wrench
- Connect the sensor
- Tighten the 10mm bolt to the lead
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step 8 :Reinstalling the Fan Shroud
- Insert the shroud into place
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the shroud
- Connect the coolant hose
- Close the hose clamp
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step 9 :Reinstalling the Power Steering Reservoir
- Tighten the 8mm bolt to the power steering reservoir
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the coolant
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step 10 :Installing the Air Intake
- Connect the air intake
- Tighten the hose clamps
- Connect the PCV and breather hoses
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step 11 :Reinstalling the Coolant Bottle
- Tighten the 10mm bolts to the coolant bottle
- Connect the hose to the radiator
- Fill the coolant and radiator to the appropriate level
- Run the engine
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Torque Wrench
8mm Allen Wrench
8mm Socket
Drain Pan
10mm Socket
Ratchet
36mm Socket
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Remove your air intake tube. There are two fittings, you just press the green tab to the side, pull them off. The green tab, pull it up and off, and then loosen your two band clamps and pull the tube out with a flat blade screwdriver. Remove the hose from the radiator fill and then remove the two 10mm bolts that hold the bottle on. There's also a wiring harness clipped back here that you'll have to pull off. Power steering reservoir, remove the 8mm bolt that holds it in place, and then just pull it up and kind of set it off to the side. 10mm bolt holds the upper radiator shroud. One here, and there's one right on the other side as well. We'll remove those, use a good pair of pliers, squeeze this clamp, and this little tab will actually lock it open, and then twist the radiator hose, and pull it off. Set it back as well. Then you can kind of pull up and back towards the engine, and pull your upper shroud up and off.
Disconnect our lead, which is the tab right here. Push down with the thumb and separate it. And then remove this 8mm bolt. 8mm socket with a ratchet and extension to help you out. It comes out, you just kind of pull this out and you can actually swing it off to the side, make it easier to get at your fan clutch. Once you get to this point, there are special tools designed specifically for getting the fan clutch off.
Now we need to remove the fan clutch, which is this large 36mm nut here. Basically you want to use a wrench to hold onto the pulley, so you can see this wrench goes down and it goes over the bolts. I can now hold that pulley like that, and then I have a 36mm wrench that's a little thinner, that fits down over, and I can put a bar for more leverage on there. Usually once it loosens up, you can see now that the fan clutch is spinning right off.
To remove the fan from the fan clutch, just remove the four 10mm bolts that hold it together. 10mm socket wrench with an extension. You should be able to push the fan clutch out. This is the original fan clutch and 1A Auto, we do sell a very nice replacement for this. We didn't have one available when we were shooting the video so we are going to put it back together, we're just doing this to show you. But, the one from 1A Auto comes clutch, and the harnesses, and bracket, and everything.
When you're ready to reinstall your new one, you can see that this side is the side the clutch was on because it has the marks like that. And then this side has the round marks from the bolts. We want to just line it up and put it on, put the bolts back in. The fan even says, it's even marked as "front" on the fan. Bolts back in and tighten them up. Tighten these to 7 newton meters, which is also 62 inch pounds, which is right around 5 foot-pounds.
Reinstall, put it down in and make sure it goes onto the water pump shaft. Be careful to make sure it goes on straight. Use a wrench to hold it in place, and tighten it up with the 36mm wrench. Bring your bracket and lead up, and we've got our hose here that has to snake under here. Your vehicle may have a stud down here that it bolts into, ours doesn't. Here’s an 8mm bolt and we'll tighten that up. Reconnect the lead, make sure it clicks.
Feed the shroud back in. You can see there's holes in the shroud that correspond to tabs on the lower shroud. You lower it down back in, try to get one side, and then make sure you feed the other side in too. Lift it up gently, get this clip on, and make sure it goes back down correctly. You can also pull out on the lower shroud a little bit to help line things up. Reinstall our two 10mm bolts, one on this side, same location on the other side. Tighten those up, put your upper radiator hose back in, in place. Use the clamp, in place, and release. Power steering reservoir, bring it back into place. It has a little tab down here that inserts into the upper radiator shroud, and an 8mm bolt that holds it. Put your air hose back in place, make sure that it goes on there correctly, and tighten up this one with a flat blade screwdriver.
Then we connect the sensors, make sure you hear a click, and put your radiator overflow bottle in place. This tab goes into a slot down in here, and then this harness may be connected on here, as you can see the clip has come undone on ours, but slide the bottle into place and put your two 10mm bolts on. Tighten those up. We'll reconnect this hose, fill the coolant bottle to the "full cold", run the engine, let the air bleed out of the system, let the vehicle cool down, refill it, and then just make sure you check your radiator fluid the first few times that you drive the vehicle.
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