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Fan Removal in 2000 3L V6

davidg25

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Wake Forest, NC
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2000 Ranger XLT 3.0L Flex
I'm chasing a coolant leak behind my timing cover (103k miles) in my 2000 Ranger, 3L V6.

I'm having a (not-so-good-of-a) time getting the Advance Auto fan clutch tools to work.

The Haynes manual is presumably showing a 4.0L in their photo, as they use a counter-clockwise reference. The photo doesn't look like my fan either. I understand that I want to turn mine clockwise.

Anyone have any tips on getting this done?

Many Thanks,

david
 



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Yea the Advance Auto tools didnt work for me either. What I did was put an adjustable wrench on the nut of the fan and took an oil filter strap wrench to hold the water pump pulley and went at it that way. It is a reverse thread too. Hope that helps.
 






Yea the Advance Auto tools didnt work for me either. What I did was put an adjustable wrench on the nut of the fan and took an oil filter strap wrench to hold the water pump pulley and went at it that way. It is a reverse thread too. Hope that helps.

Thanks! I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one.

I'll have to come up with a better strap wrench - I got a pair of cheap ones at Advance Auto, and they didn't work on the pump pulley (kept slipping).
 






Yea the Advance Auto tools didnt work for me either. What I did was put an adjustable wrench on the nut of the fan and took an oil filter strap wrench to hold the water pump pulley and went at it that way. It is a reverse thread too. Hope that helps.

I believe it is a RIGHT HAND thread, I maybe wrong. But it does say it on the fan louver (right spelling??). I had to use those pipe tool, the kind with steel chain to hold the pulley in place.

Mine is a 4.0
 






Got It

A neighbor came over, and we put a C-clamp vice grip on the pulley to hold it. I used my rubber mallet to hit the wrench a couple of times while wedging the clamp against the chassis and popped the nut loose.

Yes it was a right-hand thread as well.

Thanks everyone !
 






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