Need Help with cooling fan

[Trbulnc]

Took the car out for a drive tonight, came home and parked it in the garage and before shutting it off I heard a scraping/rubbing sound. It was coming from the cooling fan on the radiator. Question is....the fan itself is loose and wobbles on the shaft..is that normal? There is a clip on the front for a retainer, am I missing something. I let the car run for another minute and the fan never started turning. Should the fan blade assy. be tight on the shaft or has the fan motor possibly seized?

Thanks.

 

[Supercharged Vipermad]

Model? Year? If pre-98, I think most would say to just upgrade the fan assembly to the 98.5 and up. Not knowing the model/year makes it difficult.

 

[Trbulnc]

Sorry, it is a '96 roadster. I got the fan assy. out and took it apart, there is a dowel pin that runs through the shaft of the motor which allows the fan to seat. The pin is gone and the underside of the aluminum fitting in the fan is wore pretty bad also. Anyone have a spare fan and dowel pin they want to sell?

Stephen

 

[Qualitywires.com]

Stephen,

I would just upgrade your fan...you're talking about $160 or so..plus it will work a lot better.

I had the same thing happen on my 1994 viper.

 

[Eric H]

i had the same thing on my 98..........i took a razor and scraped some of the bottom of the plastic shroud off and the noise went away. However I am also going to upgrade to the 99+ model year fan.

 

[Supercharged Vipermad]

I'd sell you my old stock 97 fan/shroud...if you want....but I'd do what AB said (in fact, I did!).

 

[Trbulnc]

Thanks for the help and advice! Ordered one today.

 

[ruckdr]

Update to the later fan.