Here's the bottom of the radiator. Just needs to be held against it a smidge. Ended up putting a small section of 5/8" heater hose squished in and sank a self-drilling screw through to hold it. Simple, but effective. It holds in there mostly by itself even without the screw.
Here's where I mounted the little Hayden fan switch. Easy to get at but out of the way if I have to dig down in the engine bay around the side of the master cylinder. I'm using it as a ground for the relay, hence the wire wrapped up around to the mounting plate.
You can see the relay attached to the wire loom above the battery in the corner. It's a Nissan relay.
I mounted the probe on the top passenger as it was the only area left I could fit it without cutting into the fan shroud. The bottom of the fan shroud goes right to the edge of the radiator bottom, the driver's side has even less clearance. I'm probably going to get a piece of pipe insulation foam and run a small bit across the top of the radiator where the angle aluminum bolts on, that way I can isolate the temperature probe wire for better control. The fuse holder is inline on top.
All in all, the fan setup was $50 from the wrecking yard. Pulls a bit more amperage than I was expecting, but I'm okay with that if it keeps the van from overheating at idle. It also gets rid of the mechanical finger cleaver fan. Between rivets, inline fuse, but connectors and whatnot, I'm in it less than $100 bucks for a really nice electric fan setup. One less thing to fix on the box van, woohoo!
Not too hard, is it? Good news is its getting closer to tow ready status!
It will be used for storage of car parts. Remember, the plan is to turn this into a relaxing at the track retreat. So it'll need a vise (just bought another one) so I can mount that to the desk for fiddling with car parts, and it will need an AC unit to keep it cool. I'm probably going to go with a house unit and a small quiet generator to run it inside the box. Figured I'll use the front section and make a noise reduction housing for it, pipe the exhaust and heat out of the box on the side somewhere. The only problem I have otherwise is there's no man door. I can pull down the roll up door, but that also looses all the heat. Soooo, I'm thinking I may need to cut the side and install a man door, unless I want to use the pass through in the front for access, which I'd rather not. It's hard to crawl past the seats. I don't know, I'll figure something out.
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