Lori and I were going to Macy's, and when we came out, there was a fine mist, and a lot of water on the ground.

Obviously not good. The coolant expansion tank, and radiator endcaps are plastic, and known to pop. Also (unrelated tot his) the engine driven fan is known to explode, taking out a lot of stuff underhood, and the hood itself. This was the permanent fix.

1. This is the stock engine compartment.		2. This is the oil filter. You can see some water sitting about..
3. This is a shot down the front of the engine.		4. I took the cover off, to have some more room to work.
5. It is a lot easier to do the work with the airbox out of the way.		6. I then removed the expansion tank.
7. Here is where the tank used to hang.		8. This is the bleed screw, which also helps hold the expansion tank in.
9. And here is the cause of my problem. It would have faced the radiator, making it hard to see.		10. Next off came the fan shroud.
11. Here's the fan.		12. Another view.
13. Now with the radiator itself out of the way.		14. The fan comes off with three allen screws.
15. The fan clutch is made by Behr.		16. That comes off with a 36mm wrench. Remember, it's lefthand thread.
17. Lots of room with it out of the way.		18. The solution came in two big boxes, and cost between $1300 and $1400.
19. There were some small parts. These include coolant switch, connector, rubber mounts, coolant level sensor, oil cooler hose, and two relays.		20. Then the big parts. These were the fully aluminum radiator, aluminum expansion tank, shroud, and electric fan.
21. I meansured the wire runs in the car, and layed it out on some boxes to get the wire lengths right.		22. And I started crimping connectors. This is the fused power feed to the relays
23. I tap into a free ignition keyed power source for the switch feed on the relay. I drill right into the fuse box, and seal arouund the wire with silicone		24. The wire runs from the fuse box up to the front of the car.
25. And across the front. I held it in place with the radiator mounts.		26. It looks a bit of a mess now, but I have about 16 inches to take out of those wire runs.
27. Here it is all neatend up and put into split loomHeres where the most excess of wiring was.		28. This is where the bigest excess of wire ended up. Still it looks pretty neat.
29. I ran the feed wire back along the firewall so it could run under the engine cover neatly.		30. Here the fesed feed runs to the bat plus terminal.
31. All done with the cover back on.

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