Thursday, May 28, 2009

Peugeot 807 Radiator Cooling Fan Removal

My People Mover Peugeot 807 has clocked 94K km. Recently the temperature gauge has been showing 100C while at standstill condition. The symptoms includes warm air in the cabin even with the Aircon system turn "ON".


Observe the Radiator Cooling Fan Speed and guess what ? The fan moved in a very slow / weak rotation/Speed. Guess the fan is dying. Knocking it will "rejuvenate" it for awhile but will display same symptom later.



Removing the Radiator Cooling Fan for this people mover is a 2 spanner job /very easy ( 5 spanner job is very difficult ). Here are the few simple steps.

You need to remove the plastic cover. It has 6 Plastic Studs.

Flat face screw driver and a Long nose plier should do the job













Please use a long Nose Plier to pull this plastic pins as they might break if use excessive pulling force.















Here are the Plastic Pins

















Please remove the Bonnet cable lever unit. Using a flat face screw driver and prise under the lever.












Once all the 6 plastic studs and the bonnet cable lever assy are removed, Just pull it out horizontally.















Please take note that there are 3 plastic hook below this plastic cover. So please draw this cover out horizontally so that you do not break these 3 locking hooks.




Don't pull this cover too out. You might snap the bonnet cable. !!!








Once you have done that, you can see the 3 speed Cooling Fan.















There are just 4 mounting screws ( 10 mm ). You will need a 10mm Spanner - preferably a ring spanner.





You have a wide working space. So no issue with removing these screws.







This is the back of the fan. The Aircon Condensor unit. Will clean it when I install back the fan. Recommended detergent to use will be AMWAY LOC ( I am not affiliated in any way to this company ) I use this cleaning solution as it has Anti Rust + Biodegradeble properties.. Using a spray bottle and rinse down with running water should do the job.













Once all the 4 screws are removed, take the fan out. You will need to pull the wire connector at the bottom as you draw the fan out.







A new fan is quite costly. 3 times the price of a Japanese model car. But this fan being a 3 speeds fan and have already worked near to 100K km ( considering the idling/waiting time while the engine runs. But the best part of this all, it actually cost me very little as I only change the carbon brushes for this unit. Quite a simple procedure.

Tested with the new carbon brush .. WoWWWW... it's powerful - the speed .. Now the Engine temperature + the Aircond is working as it should.

For installation, just work the other way around.

Hope you find this article helpful ..............................