hey i was wondering if anyone has ever been envolved with changing out a fan clutch on a ford ranger with a 3.0, mine is dead but i can not get it off cause i dont know exactly what to hold onto while i crank on the bolt that connects to the water pump, i know its reverse thread and i know im going the right way but i just cant get it to come loose, if anyone has any suggestion it would be greatly appreciated.......thanks

 

yeah you need a special wrench and a hammer. i have this wrench. where are you located?

 

va beach, what does this special wrench do? does it hold the wrench a certain way so it wont spin or what???

 

the wrench is nothing more then a big wrench that is like 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 or something like that . . you can pic em up form advance . . but I don't know what to tell you as far as holding the pulley/waterpump from turning . . . when I was working at advance a guy brought in one that he completely tore up trying to pry on it and hold it with vice grips and all kinds of stuff . . .

 

well the nut that you turn is 7/8 but thats the only nut i see, there dosent look like there is anything to hold the pulley with thats y im just totally lost, its such an easy fix on any other truck except a god damn ranger.....dammit.....

 

not god damn ranger . . god damn ford . . . . .lol they did it on some others to .. not sure how to help ya on that one . .

 

good point on the ford thing, buts its still better than a chevy.........this is just a small fuck up compared to some of the stupid shit that chevy's got going on

 

get a strap wrench that uses a chain and wrap that around the pully and have a friend hold that while you loosen the bolt.

this is how we did it on my 92 ranger

and while that fan is off you might as well replace the timming belt cause if you dont do it now, you'll just go through this again when its that time.

 

lol I think all the manufactures fucked up in the 90's on . . .I'll stick with my old school chevy and be happy

oh and how come when I went to the junk yard to find an axle for my chevy . . they had like a million ford trucks and like 2 chevys . . . .lol . . . and not just one junk yard . . like 8 junk yards I went to . . . but I got the cure for breaking axles . .but will be a while before I get em put in

 

well you see.....more people buy fords cause there a better truck, unfortunetly some dont know how to drive thats why they end up in the junk yard.......ok im done


and to put a chain around the pulley involves taking the belt off and thats just one more process that i dont really want to do.......