Chris Duke: I am Chris Duke and today on Motorz I'm going to show you how to install an E fan and an air intake kit on a 2005 Ford F150 pickup truck.
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Chris Duke: Today on Motorz we are going to return our attention to our good old F150 project truck. Now we haven't spent a whole of time underneath the hood in previous episodes, so today we are going to focus on some built on modifications that you can easily do yourself and from the factory Ford's 5.4 liter engine does have some power or after we lifted this thing up, we lost quite a bit of it.
Now we can help fix that by changing the gear ratio, but we can also add some under hood upgrades they are quick and easy and don't involve the messy gear swab. So today we are going to show you how to install Electric fan kit from flex-a-lite as well as a cool air intake from advanced flow engineering. A flex-a-lite kit comes with dual 15 inch blades in a variable speed control which gives us an additional 17 horsepower, 20 foot pounds of torque while improving gas mileage in keeping the truck engine bay much, much cooler.
Now since we are going to be underneath the hood now we are going to have remove the intake any way just to install the fans, we are also going to install an AFE intake which is designed to increase airflow as well as increase horsepower and torque. Let's crack this baby open and get started.
For this installation you are going to need a 532 drill bit as well as a quarter inch drill bit and of course a drill. A Torx T15 bit as well as 532nd Allen Head bit various ratchets and extensions, a 10 millimeter and 8 millimeter socket, an 8 millimeter nut driver, various screwdrivers, a crimping tool, some wire cutters, some wire strippers, a couple of 10 millimeter wrenches and of course some work gloves.
To get started you have to remove the stock air intake assembly, it's pretty easy, grab a 10 millimeter socket with an extension. There is four 10 millimeter bolts two on the right side and two on the left, once you pop those out, the electrical connector way back here on the left hand side. On the right hand side there is another electrical connector and that is for your mass air sensors. Once you've got those popped off there is just one more thing to do right here is a bracket on the back side of the air intake tube, pop that off as well and get this radiator cover off. Once you have done that then we can move on.
Next we need to remove fan shroud cover in order to do that you just grab a 8 millimeter socket, you've got a bolt here and a bolt on the other side, then this just slides right on because it's just kind of hang it down there, but you can't really take this off right now because you got this big fan in the way. So in order to get that off we have to get a fan clutch removal tool, you can get these at your local auto-part store, you can either buy them or rent them and which you have got on there, firm grasp on the other bolts that retaining it. Twist this counter clock wise to loosen it up.
So with the fan off and your bolts out of your radiator fan shroud cover, you can remove the whole assembly, just be careful you don't hit anything on the radiator. There is the fan. As it takes a little bit of wrestling to get out there is a clip that comes through here from one of the wiring harnesses, you do need to get that out of there. Now this big fan shroud removed and the fan itself were loosing a lot of weight and rotating mass, so that engines going to have to work a little bit less hard and we are going to increase performance. Now the way these two different fan options is about the same. The difference is that electrical motor spins this one as oppose to your engine turning that one that's the big difference.
Install the variable speed control module right here on the front of the fan, just mark it with the pencil. Use the two included screws that they give you right here through a 532 hole right there and right there, just screw this to the fan.
We need to connect the black and red motor wires to this purple and yellow wire on the variable speed control. So for that we are going to drill a quarter inch hole right here in order to fix these down through there and on the back side we are going to a drill hole right through this center rips that we connect the wires to that.
Use to provide a yellow buck connectors to connect these two black wires from the fans motors to the purple wire and I'll do the same thing for the red wries to the yellow wires. Before you install flex-a-lite fan we have to put some brackets on the truck as well as some metaling hardware on the fan itself. These are pretty easy to install as they use the stock bracket that's down there, so you just kind of press that in there and then use the factory 8 millimeter bolt that you removed and tie it down on the top, just want to do this loosely for now because you may have to adjust it a little bit.
Install the mounting bracket with the supplied 8 millimeter bolts from flex-a-lite on the both sides of the fan. And drop you new E fan in the place and once it's down there you can secure the metaling plates with the metaling brackets on the side with the 10 millimeter bolt. Now you want this to butt up right against that radiator to create a nice seal around it. So right about there I'll do it you can tight it down right there.
Now we found this particular vehicle and this application as you really can't get to this bottom bolts on the side brackets at all once you slip this in. So put those on first like we have and then you can bolt it down to the front.
Next we need to take care of some wiring. One of the things we need to do is pick up this thermostat I poke in this into the radiator, we are going to take care of next, but for now we are going to hook up one of the provider wires from our control unit down to the AC compressor, which is located on the passenger side of the motor. There is a two wire connector hooked up to that. Pop that off and place in one of those provider wires back up to their appropriate contact on the control unit.
Take your temperature probe and put it into radiator over by the upper radiator hose on the passenger side, we want to push it through, so it comes through the other end about a quarter to a half an inch. And on the other end put on these electrical connectors that flex-a-lite provides you connected to the back of the control unit to the number 10 any 11 spots and I am going to leave all these wiring kind of loose for now until are all done we will tight it up.
Do the same thing by crimping on one of the provided connectors to the green wries that goes down your AC compressor and hook it up to either number eight or the number seven on the back of the control unit depending on whether it's positive or negative down there.
Now there is two more wires that you have to hook up your positive and your negative goes straight over to the battery and you can use the provided fuse holder from flex-a-lite to do that. Now you can optionally hook up your control unit to go to your ignition or switch inside your car.
Now as I mentioned before you can hook up the switch wire to go to your ignition or a switch inside your vehicle, we decide hook it directly up for a 12 volt power source. Now tight up your wiring it turn on your vehicle as well as the AC and adjust the screw counter clockwise for cooler setting or clockwise for a warmer setting. Now when we come back from our break we'll show how to install that air intake from AFE.
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