Cooling fan failure

[Sgt Bilco]

I was sitting in traffic a couple of weeks ago and thought to myself, "that's odd, the cooling fan hasn't come on"! I was meeting a mate and as soon as I pulled over, teh old girl ejected the radiator coolant all over the floor.

Quick check and the fuse had blown so put a new one in which blew again.

Turns out that if you drop an S10, the cooling fan assembly can get damaged and upon close inspection, you can see wear that fan has rubbed against the rad.

I took teh fan off and it spins very roughly and I suspect it's been like this for a while and eventually cried enough and stopped working.

The kicker in this whole saga is a new fan is, I hope you're sitting down, £574.00 plus vat which is daylight robbery at it's finest.

There are two alternatives:

Buy from Yoshiparts in Japan for about £350 which is more palatable or apparently a late model FJR fan motor is the same so for the cost of that, you swap teh bits over.

For the life of me I can't find a used FJR fan with the same Denso part number so it looks like Yoshiparts.

They will ship from Japan so has anyone used them?

Also, does anyone have a fan kicking about of an S10?

 

[Santa-2512]

Get the part up and go hunting

Fit a kenlowe or similar its just a fan ffs

 

[JJH]

A fan is a fan. 45 years ago I put a fan out of a talbot alpine into a ford cortina. I was a bit of a meddler and could bodge up something if I hit the idea in my head. JJH

 

[NeilDD]

Chris,
Universal rad fan from AliExpress for under £20 delivered.
Measure up the dead fan and put some pic's up and I'll have a dig around for you

 

[squibb34]

The FJR fan motor swap is the answer - dissemble the fan by removing the fan blades & mounting brackets, so you just have the motor itself to re-mount & splice in. There are several on eBay with UK breakers currently.

This from the S10 forum .......... https://yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?threads/cheaper-fan-motor-replacement.36455/#post-553892

 

[Sgt Bilco]

The FJR fan motor swap is the answer - dissemble the fan by removing the fan blades & mounting brackets, so you just have the motor itself to re-mount & splice in. There are several on eBay with UK breakers currently.

This from the S10 forum .......... https://yamahasupertenere.com/index.php?threads/cheaper-fan-motor-replacement.36455/#post-553892

Excellent and thanks for that. I've located an FJR fan assembly from Sherlocks and although the blade size is different, the fan motor looks very similar.

I'll be doing this next Saturday so I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[Einar]

Thanks for sharing. I had a low side on my S10 whichh bent the givi crash bars inwards. Will double check the fan integrity.
Good luck with the repair. It's a poor fan design given the bike's purpose and expected use.