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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I am having fifty thousand fits trying to install a Revotec pusher fan in my 3000 MkII BT7 ie a fan that sits on the front of the radiator.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So…..I’ve got a Revotec kit. Decent powerful “slimline” 14” fan and a pair of mounting brackets designed specifically for 3000s. (Plus a thermostat etc).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The brackets are very nicely made. “Laser-cut”, I think they say. And the destructions are well laid out and perfectly comprehensible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But, not to put to fine a point on it, the bloody thing won’t fit. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s all too precise, all cut to the nearest millimetre with very little scope for fettling. They probably got a 3000 and designed everything precisely per that particular car and supposed that 3000s would all be the same. (To the nearest millimetre!!!) I must have had the radiator in and out half a dozen times. It’s not easy – on my car at least – without the fan. But, with the fan, it’s a real PITA.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve got to the stage where I give up or attack the two cross pieces with an angle grinder.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m referring to the two bits of angle-iron, referred to as braces I think, that are behind the radiator. They are, basically, “L”-shaped with the horizontal section nearest the grille and the flat going towards the radiator. I wonder if it’s imprudent to grind off about ¾ “ of both sides about 4” above where they intersect and about 1½” below.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>See the attached. I’m thinking of grinding off everything contained within the black arrows.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I really can’t see an alternative but I’m holding off for now. Seems a tad drastic……<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Really appreciate your input on this…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>