So this afternoon I removed the belt fan and mounted the electric fan. It turned out that turning the electric fan shroud (from a '96 T-Bird) 90 degrees from the way it was intended to be mounted was almost a perfect fit in my Ranger. I drilled 3 holes in the plastic shroud and used 1 original hole to mount it to the radiator. All mounting hardware was salvaged from around the garage (including leftover bolts from a toilet mount kit
). Tomorrow (if I can find a place open) I'm going to get the needed wire splices and hookup the relay kit. I'm will use the red wire from what I assume is the wiper motor for the 12V switched source (see photo).
I do have some questions about the fan wires. There are four. One blue, one black, and two black with red stripes. The fan runs fine when hooking up blue to positive and black to negative. Do I need to worry about the other two wires? What could they be for? Some kind of speed control?
Just wanted to update the progress. Any tips and info would be appreciated.