[mosesburb]

Originally Posted by lower50's

I totally agree with your first paragraph, I live by it.
Strange your fans keep dying!! Is there a voltage drop maybe? that would kill them.
Sound reduction is on my list for this spring. Is your turbo the HX35? does it turbo have the silencer ring?
I have the HX35 I made a silencer ring I can remove, drops highway noise by 5db.

I don't think it is a voltage drop as both failures have been locked up. The turbo is an HX35 and it does have the silencer ring still in it.

Originally Posted by spacedebris

I love the grill screen you did. I did something similar to my old 79 chevy luv back in college. Only I used pet window screen. I cut it 1 inch taller than I needed and then folded over the top and bottom 1/2 inch and sewed it together to make a pocket top and bottom the width of the grill. Then placed about 2 gauge wire through the pockets. Then starting with one side put a pocket in one end and then evenly spaced pockets across the width (for my luv it was every 8 inches or so if I remember right) with more 2 gauge wires. Then placed behind the grill. attached those "runners" to any mounting screws top bottom left and right. Basically made a window screen for my grill. Worked great. The only problem I ever had was during one trip, I ran into some heavy wet snow and the screen packed up almost instantly. I was amazed at how durable that nylon pet screen is. Like you said, it reduces the airflow slightly. But I only ever noticed the bare minimum of temp rises on the idiot gauge. (went from the left side of the tick mark to the right side). Also since the screen is black, it all but disappeared behind the grill and could only be seen if you really looked for it.

Yours sounds a bit more elaborate than mine. Cool that it worked well for you.

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Nice maintenance and upgrading. Do you have a link to the screen that you went with to save us the same research?

No, and to be honest with you, I'd have to try and find a remnant to measure the three dimensions to even tell you what those were. The installation was kind of a "trial" fit that ended up working very well.