Recent content by Thomw

The fan pump/idler pulley is still going strong 10/2021!!

I originally bought a 2003 LS V6 electric fan with shroud off ebay. Hooked it up to 12V expecting it to run at full speed because of no signal to controls inside fan. Nada. Removed fan from shroud and installed a 16" electric fan I had in the garage. I looked online and 16" seems to be at the...

As other v6 owner's have found, the belt would run over top of itself if the pulley is not there. Jealous of V8 owner's in that respect.

Just finished the electric fan conversion on my '01 Lincoln LS V6. I ran it with the pump looped for about a week until it froze up and spun the pulley. I couldn't bring myself to fork out $175.00 (Ebay) for, what in essence, is an idler pulley. The cheap and, hopefully, reliable solution was...

As you can see, this is my first post to the group but I've relied heavily on the info here. Many thanks to “oddball”, “joegr”, “immusicman” and others for their postings on the electric fan conversion for the LS. I will be posting some info on turning the LS's hydraulic fan pump into an idler...